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A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
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| Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierIf cinema can indeed "think," Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie is an epistemological treatise. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIn a perfect world, there would be an old movie palace somewhere that plays Celine and Julie Go Boating over and over. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezJacques Rivette's spry and intoxicating 1974 comedy Celine and Julie Go Boating observes the way women look at each other, themselves, and the world around them. |
| VarietyVariety StaffAn over indulged, overlong film that has some gem-like moments but also repetitiveness and preciosity. |
| Time OutDavid FearJacques Rivette's free-form dissertation on the interzone between performance and spectatorship is the ideal filmgoing experience, even as the 'story' transcends all long-standing rules of narrative engagement. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA charming and beautifully planned drama that resolves nothing -- and doesn't need to. |
| Film4Jon FortgangWith its commentary on art and fantasy, this is a radical experiment in non-linear filmmaking. |
| New York TimesNora SayreWhen this movie sags, it becomes a series of skits, but the best parts do achieve the spontaneity and impudent freshness that this director relishes. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyThe loosely guided performances are often slack, and the thin depiction of daily life lessens the power of fantasy, yet Rivette's fretful view of the dangers of stories is, in effect, a self-portrait as a cinephile on the verge of hallucination. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt is an incomprehensible, enjoyable, uninhibited slapstick romp. |