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Friday
May172024

How Had I Never Seen... "Céline and Julie Go Boating" (1974)?

by Eric Blume

This week marks 50 years since the release of the Jacques Rivette classic Céline and Julie Go Boating.  I’m a devoted a Francophile, but this film was a hole in my viewing, so coming to this extraordinarily strange time capsule of a movie was a bit of a challenge.  C&JGB defies a lot of basic principles one expects from a movie, and by that I mean, there is no basic logic (the way these two characters initially meet, and how they behave together in their first scenes, is stylized beyond human recognition).  Rivette plunges you into a purposeful state of disbelief here, wanting you to abandon your impulses for traditional narrative, character development, and behavior...

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