Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Essential Viewing

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Céline et Julie vont en bateau

Director: Jacques Rivette

Writers: Juliet Berto, Eduardo de Gregorio, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Jacques Rivette

Cinematographer: Jacques Renard

Composer: Jean-Marie Sénia

Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie Asnar

Silly, enigmatic, and completely irresistible, Céline and Julie Go Boating is a weirdly wonderful and wonderfully weird film; a film about everything and nothing, comprising of several nonsense filled vignettes, in which two attractive, twenty-something, Parisian women – one a librarian, the other a magician – who share a flat, take it in turns visiting a haunted mansion. Iain.Stott