What a surprise to find this up at YouTube! Although less and less surprises me these days.
How to describe Celine and Julie Go Boating, other than “one of the greatest films ever made”?
Two women, Celine and Julie, a magician and a librarian, bond over a shared interest in magic and the occult. Together they discover one of the weirdest haunted houses in all of cinema, a mansion in which a Henry James novel is being eternally reenacted. Celine and Julie can enter the house, which will expel them after a few hours with no memory of what’s going on inside. But when they eat a magic candy, they start to remember what they witnessed…
It’s funny and cool and sexy and more than a little spooky.
It’s inspired in part by Lewis Carroll, and was partial inspiration for Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).
Also, it’s one of the greatest films ever made.
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau – Phantom Ladies Over Paris) (1974)
Directed by Jacques Rivette. Starring Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, and Barbet Schroeder.
(You can turn on English subtitles through the CC button. There are Czech subtitles, too!)
There is no better movie. Rivette wins cinema.
Is that what one wins? Is that what one wants?
There’s no point wanting it. Rivette’s already got it all.
What is he going to do with it?
Maybe make a casserole? In which he would hide a key.
There must be a book of filmmakers’ favorite recipes. There must be.