Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

lasttimeisaw This Jacques Rivette's genre-defying opus is an unsung hero upon its release in 1974, but 40 years later when we are all stumped in light of the cornucopia of derivative outputs, this masterpiece attests that it is never too late to burrow into historical archives, advocate some hidden gems and introduce them to the fast food generation, and CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING could overtly widen one's filmic horizon by its unprecedented storytelling and the contagious jovial aura. We are like in a blind man's bluff, the film begins with a head-scratching hide-and-seek tailing between Julie, a librarian and Celine, an amateurish magician, we will never know from the context whether they are acquaintances before or the first-sight attraction draws them closer, after a chirpy episode of putting out feelers, they lives together in a small apartment, where Celine casually mentions of her unpleasant experience working as a nanny for a mystified ménage-à-trois family, it intrigues Julie's curiosity, from then on, a very unique ghost-house yarn has been ingeniously unveiled through Celine and Julie's multiple impersonations as the reserved nanny in a boudoir drama. The film is such a pioneer in its blending liberal modus operandi of whimsicality (the first half looks like everything is done impromptu) with elaborately calculated ad hoc murder scheme, Celine and Julie's laid-back and bubbly kindred spirit permeates the film and modulates its rhythm and pulse up to a labyrinthine fantasy, utterly absorbing and an influential progenitor to many future rule-breakers (MEMENTO 1999, 10/10 for instance). It is a diptych in its cinematographic style as well, the insouciant nouvelle vague influence vs. a multi-angle observation indoors, which magnify Berto and Labourier's disparate temperaments, intensify Ogier and Pisier's distinctive mystique and functionally wrap us up into this whodunit during the long-haul. Meanwhile, Rivette adequately leaves viewers many open threads to chew on, like the jumpy inter-cutting of the shots in the house during Celine's magic show, is a perplexing maneuver to lure us into the mystery, and it works. Also, one snippet when they let a coin to decide whose turn to visit the mansion, Julie cannily says "head I win, tail you lose", one should not miss the ephemeral stimulation which plainly gives more credits than its ostensible spontaneity.At first glance, its 193 minutes running time looks daunting, but as I watched it separately in two days, it turned out pretty well. It is a film can wholly alter one's notion of story-telling in an anti-cinematic methodology, and Rivette pulls it off effortlessly, a must-see for all thirsty film gourmets plus, it has a sterling ending which will make all its time worth the wait.

Milan Having read about this movie I decided to give it a go, even though the plot didn't seem to exist in any way that could keep you interested for 30 minutes, let alone 195. I like distinctive and different films, sprinkled with surrealism, as much as I like popular classic cinema, but there has to be something that drives the story, and keeps a viewer follow it through. If the story hangs on a thin line, there has to be something other truly mesmerizing (photography, set design, etc.),that pushes a movie to another level. A series of self indulgent drama class exercises, that drag on for more than three hours, testing the patience of best-intentioned and most willing viewer to it's outer limits, is what happens in Celine and Julie. This is a sort of a movie, that has so little to offer, that your mind keeps wondering to all other places but the screen. Two leading actresses play with each other, and it drags on and on, in most parts looking like a student film of an overly ambitious but less talented student. The trick is, they keep student films to under one hour in duration, and it should have been done with this one, it might have improved it's quality. Story of mysterious house in which strange things happen is marred by silly pastiches of unexplained and often absurd actions two leading ladies undertake, in an effort to solve the mystery that has a self serving purpose, same as the movie which is trying too hard to be incomprehensible, in order to be different. And it succeeds. Whatever frenzied gallery of scenes that have no meaning for the general audience, is shown to you, and the least you understand the intentions and ideas of so called "auteur", more it will be considered by many outside of their intellectual capacity, thus, probably representing something really extraordinary.Borrowing heavily from Sedmikrásky (1966), Vera Chytilova's pearl of the Czech new wave and world cinema, Jacques Rivette, couldn't emulate it's freshness, playfulness and cinematography, simply because he didn't have the ability, and because he lost any direction he could have had, when he passed the magic mark of about 76 minutes, after which, these fountains of ideas turn to stone. Difference is coherent uniqueness, difference is Kubrick, Teshighara, Clouzot, Truffaut, Kaurismäki. Surrealist is Bunuel, Cocteau, Ferreri... Distinctive is Polanski, Allen, Melville, Hitchcock, Welles. This one is not. No plot, no cinematography, no ideas and several pretty scenes is all there is. Nothing to justify three hours of your life. Avoid.

p-zaprqnov The first thing i could say about this film is: it is certainly not for every taste. First of all its plot is totally non-liner, second this movie deals with strange themes in a very strange way, third it has the typical for the french cinema slow development of the act and fourth - it is over three hours long. It is a film about magic and friendship, about two women and their fascination with each other and with magical tricks. It is also a Jacques Rivette movie and I think any one who has watched some of his other films will notice it - it is an extremely long enigmatic movie with interesting dialogues shot in a beautiful way. It somehow reminds of L'Amour Par Terre but is not so dark. This movie can be considered as a comedy, a drama, a thriller or a mystery but first of all it is an experimental film with notes of surrealism and at least for me one of the biggest masterpieces of the french new wave.

shawash The traditional story of 2 women attempting to save a little girl from the craziness of growing up is turned on its head in this unique tale. The first 2 hours of the film are tiresome and you wish that it would have ended before it started but by the end of the film (over 3 hours in length) you are glad that the story has an outcome and are so engrossed into the story then you even hope the little fish in the apartment has a good ending. I suggest that the movie is an attempt for us to see the world of Céline and Julie as Céline and Julie saw the scenes in the house, from a disjointed perspective of bits and pieces strewn together by little green candies(this is not a drug film rather the candies are like memory pills that would help an elderly person remember things that his old age had suppressed). If you are looking for a movie about boating go somewhere else but remember that the boating scene reflects heavily on the transformation of their universe as it looks into the future. Is it all a game and does it repeat at the end? I do not have the answers but I suggest that you watch and find out for yourself.The acting is okay (not the best but it feels real and not scripted), there are Alice and Wonderland references in many places including most of the first 4 minutes, the camera angels are cool at times and make you sea sick at others, the sound effects (expecially from the cars/transportation) are louder than my ears would like but not too loud as to cause hearing loss and the music (when there is music) works well, and the plot (what ever you find that to be for yourself) is a wonderful mix of classic storytelling, blurred flashback moments, brief flashback moments, interesting cab rides, interesting character development, cats, jump cuts, psychic montages, long shots, and just plain silliness and funny confusion.Is this a Comedy or a Drama... You tell me because I do not know!