Celine and Julie go boating
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Celine and Julie go boating |
| Original title | Celine and Julie vont en bateau |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 185 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
| script | Jacques Rivette, Juliet Berto , Dominique Labourier , Bulle Ogier , Marie-France Pisier , Eduardo de Gregorio |
| production | Barbet Schroeder |
| music | Jean-Marie Sénia |
| camera | Jacques Renard |
| cut | Nicole Lubtchansky |
| occupation | |
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Celine and Julie go on a boat (original title: Celine et Julie vont en bateau - Phantom Ladies over Paris ) is a 1974 film by Jacques Rivette .
action
A “dream game of naive amusement and playful poetry”, in Paris in the early 1970s.
Celine is a sorceress who appears in a small vaudeville theater. Julie is a librarian who does esoteric magic in her spare time. Together they experience little adventures: In the first scenes of the film - during a chase on foot - Celine lures Julie from Montmartre to a hotel on the outskirts of Paris; Julie represents Céline once in the vaudeville - after challenging comments, however, she has to flee from the few male guests; Another time, Celine represents Julie at a rendez-vous with her childhood friend Guilou, who is completely romantic. Such things; all already hard on the edge or beyond the limit of any realism.
But they experience their greatest adventure in their imagination, and it turns out that they can easily revive it with colorful candies that have it all. Her imagination leads her to a big old house on a street with the equally fantastic name of Rue du Nadir aux Pommes. Strange things are going on in the house. It is inhabited by a somewhat vain widower, Olivier, and his daughter, Madlyn, as well as two pretty young women: the blond woman in red, Camille, and the dark-haired woman in blue, Sophie. Both want to win Olivier's favor, but unfortunately: Before her death, Olivier swore to his wife not to marry another while Madlyn is alive. And then there is the nanny - or is it more of a nurse? - Miss Angèle, none other than Celine and Julie, and finally both are Miss Angèle at the same time and have fun with the three phantom figures, who, however, persistently recite their texts.
At the end of the film, Celine and Julie actually go on a boat, and Madlyn is there too. Their boat glides silently across a lake, when they see in another boat, frozen into immobile figures, Olivier, Sophie and Camille, who are now really only phantoms at the latest.
Varia
"The other house"
The house with the fantastic Parisian address 7bis, rue du Nadir aux Pommes is actually in the small town of Garches, west of Paris. - The plot that Celine and Julie witness over and over as Miss Angèle is based on a novel and a story by Henry James : The Other House and The Romance of Certain Old Clothes .
reception
criticism
"A multi-layered fairy tale puzzle in which the charmingly captured Parisian cityscape is combined with the theatrics of late bourgeois emotional culture to create a dream game of naive cheerfulness and playful poetry."
Award
Celine and Julie drive boats were awarded the Grand Prize of the International Jury at the Festival del film Locarno in 1974 .
DVD
Éditions Montparnasse, 2004. DVD 1: “Le film” (in the original French version), DVD 2: “Les compléments” (includes interviews with Rivette, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Dominique Labourier; all in French).
literature
- Jörg Papke: retelling of the film. In: Filmkritik , No. 286 from October 1980; therein pp. 453-460.
- Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe . Center d'Information Cinématographique de Munich, Revue CICIM 33 from June 1991. ISBN 3-920727-04-5 . In it pp. 56–66, including comments by Rivette (originally published in Le Monde on September 19, 1974) and Juliet Berto's memories of the preparation and shooting of the film.
- Mary M. Wiles: Jacques Rivette (= Contemporary Film Directors ), University of Illinois Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-252-07834-7 . Therein pp. 98–111. (English.)
Web links
- Celine and Julie Go Boating in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Paaz and Sabine Bubeck (eds.): Jacques Rivette - Labyrinthe , p. 58.
- ↑ Approx. four-minute excerpt from a website of the French Cinémathèque
- ↑ Some photos on a website of The Cine Tourist
- ↑ a b Celine and Julie go boating. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 22, 2019 .