CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING
aka CELINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU

Year: 1974
USA: New Yorker
UK: BFI (UK Wide) (2006)
UK: ICA (2000)
Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie Asnar, Marie-Therese Saussure, Philippe Clevenot, Anne Zamire, Jean Douchet, JerOme Richard, Adele Taffetas, Monique Clement, Michael Graham, Jean-Marie Senia, Jean-Claude Biette, Jean-Claude Romer, Michel Caen, Jean Eustache, Jacques Bontemps
Director: Jacques Rivette
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 193 mins
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate language and sex references (2006)
UK Certificate: 15 (2000)
USA Release Date: 4 May 2012 (Limited Re-release)
UK Release Date: 5 May 2006 (Limited Re-release - London, NFT)
UK Release Date: 7 July 2000 (Re-release - London)

Synopsis

bfi Distribution releases new prints of Jacques Rivette's magical 70s favourite CeLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING, which combines themes of theatricality, paranoia and la vie parisienne with an entrancing examination of the mysteries of movie-making and movie-going.

Two young women seemingly bump into each other in Montmartre - Celine, a magician, (Juliet Berto) and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian. The young women strike up more than a friendship sharing the same apartment, bed, identity, imagination and magic sweets. Due to these magic sweets, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a melodrama unfolding in a haunted suburban mansion, the wonderfully named 7 bis, Rue du Nadir aux Pommes.