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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781567301229
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1567301193
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: November 11, 1998
Running Time: 193 minutes
Sales Rank: 15663
Studio: New Yorker Video
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - the adventures of two young women
Saw this movie the other night at a film society(35mm.) and am very glad I did because I went searching for it on DVD after the showing and discovered it is not available on DVD region 1. I did manage to find a VHS copy of it at my local video rental shop but this left much to be desired as I will explain. Seeing a film in a darkened hall with other film-goers is one of the pleasures of life. Celine and Julie opens with a close-up of Julie relaxing on a park bench with her book of magic and the leaves ... Read More
Rating:  - Shake up your world!
I saw this film about a month ago at the local cinematheque. About eighty minutes into it I discretely looked at my watch and was dismayed by the realization that the movie wasn't even half over. Celine and Julie go boating? There hadn't been a body of water, let alone a boat, in site thus far. Where was this bizarre story with scenes being repeated over and over again going, and when was it going to end? I'm a patient film viewer but this was too much. A number of film critics, whose opinions I ... Read More
Rating: - The "Other" Other House
Rivette fans are by now familiar with David Thomson's comparison of this movie to CITIZEN KANE, and the reference is apt: if CITIZEN KANE is world cinema's equivalent of Newtonian physics, then CÉLINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU is its string theory.
The IMDb characterizes this as a film in which the actors were allowed to "go wild" with improvisation, and that is more than a little misleading. All of Rivette's scripts lean heavily on literary or theatrical sources, and in CÉLINE the only difference ... Read More
Rating: - Two Beautiful Troublemakers Go Boating
Praised by the critics as "delicate , mysterious, and exiting", "an original and entertaining metaphor for film-watching and, perhaps, film history", and named "The most radical and delightful narrative film since Citizen Kane! The experience of a lifetime" by New York's critic David Thompson, "Celine and Julie Go Boating" (1974) is all of the above but first of all it is incredible fun to watch. This magic candy of a movie tells the story (or rather plays with the story) of two friends, Julie, a librarian and Celine, ... Read More
Rating: - THREE MORE STARS THAN J. MAGOVERN
As there is one misleading two star review here, I just wanted to point out that CELINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU might not be for J. Magovern.
As Claude Chabrol once famously quipped to the J. Magoverns of the world: "There is no New Wave. There is only the sea..." Of course Chabrol said it in French, so J. Magovern will have to make due with my vague translation...
Whether J. Magovern likes it or not, Rivette is one of the most important directors currently making movies. His movies aren't meant ... Read More
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