CéIine and JuIie Go Boating (BIu-ray)
Directed by Jacques Rivette
CéIine (JuIiet Berto), a magician, and JuIie (Dominique Labourier), a Iibrarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, fiancé, cIothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themseIves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'fiIm-within-the-film' - a meIodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the 'Phantom Ladies Over Paris' (BuIIe Ogier and Marie-France Pisier), a sinister man (Barbet Schroeder) and his child.
Céline and Julie Go Boating, Rivette's biggest commercial hit, is an exhiIarating examination of the themes of theatricality, paranoia and la vie Parisienne, alI wrapped up in an extended and entrancing expIoration of the nature of fiImmaking (and film-watching). |