Celine and Julie Go Boating
Dir: Jacques Rivette
France, 1974, 193 minsmins, DCP
Cast: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
Widely considered Rivette’s crowning achievement, Celine and Julie may seem like Alice in Wonderland at first, but soon you’ll find that the bonbons lead to an intricate world of labyrinth nowhere to find. Its interlaced stories set in parallel realities; its half-improvised dialogues full of word-games; its restless subversive playfulness. In Rivette’s sweeping tracking shots through forgotten corners of Paris, Celine and Julie playfully switch identities in their daily lives, and as they increasingly indulge their fantasies, they find themselves trying to rescue a young girl from a haunted house. Curiosity and imagination are infinite, as the film ends with the promise of another round of hide-and-seek game.
1974 Locarno International Film Festival, Special Prize of the Jury
26/8/2017 (Sat): Post-screening talk with Long Tin
Package Discount: 30% discount to each purchase of standard tickets of both La Chinoise & Celine and Julie Go Boating
Further Readings:
Celine and Julie Go Boating, From 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider (N.Y: Barron’s, 2003)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
Post-screening talk
Remarks
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