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Céline and Julie Go Boating

1974 · 194 min

A playful, dreamlike puzzle that invites you to wander through its repetitions and become a co-author of its story.

Overview
Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • friendship
  • obsession
  • memory
  • art
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour7
Realism3
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity9
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, fantasy
Directed by
Jacques Rivette
Starring
Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie Asnar, Marie-Thérèse Saussure, Philippe Clévenot
Music
Jean-Marie Sénia
Cinematography
Jacques Renard
Runtime
194 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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