Jacques Rivette's CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING is a witty salute to theater, female bonding, hallucinogenic candy, and those old standbys, fantasy and reality. Despite its three-hour-plus length and ...

In the soft light of what looks like early morning or the fleeting minutes before sunset, a woman stumbles out of a brick-walled, vine-covered house and struggles to find her footing. Her friend, ...

IT’S NOT A literal boat but a figurative vessel: “vont le bateau” implies falling for a shaggy dog story or unspecified monkeyshine. No. Scratch that. Just to be awkward, there is a real boat.

Saturday's Bastille Day double bill at the National Gallery of Art is not exactly storm-the-barricades stuff, but it is very Gallic. "Celine and Julie Go Boating" and "Souvenir" ponder such issues as ...

Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) manages to be playful and insouciant as well as experi­mental – an unlikely combination, which makes for intriguing viewing. The film’s underlying ...

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Julie (Dominque Labourier) sits on a park bench reading a book about magic until a flustered Celine (Juliet Berto) goes running by dropping artifacts of her belonging to the ground below. Curious, ...

The least well known of the New Wave founders, and easily the least prolific, Jacques Rivette created the most mysterious and labyrinthine movies among his fellow critics-turned-filmmakers; they’re ...

Juliet Berto as Celine and Dominique Labourier as Julie in Celine and Julie Go Boating. Juliet Berto as Celine and Dominique Labourier as Julie in Celine and Julie Go Boating.Mary Evans/Ronald Grant ...

The French title "Monter En Bateau" translates as to string someone along, and that's exactly what the filmmaker Rivette does to us with this freewheeling, semi-improvised extravaganza, which critics ...