Céline, a magician, meets Julie, a librarian, in Montmartre. Together they stumble on a strange, haunted suburban mansion and become entangled in the repeated drama being played out within. Jacques Rivette’s exhilarating and accomplished seventies favourite combines themes of theatricality, paranoia and la vie parisienne with an entrancing examination of the mysteries of movie-making and movie-going.

“No film has brought me more joy than Céline and Julie Go Boating. It’s funny, playful, full of tiny details that you only notice on subsequent viewings. It’s rather like a bedtime story invented on the spot; the teller doesn’t have the faintest clue where it will end up at the beginning, but disparate elements gradually build up and intersect until, finally, the whole thing comes alive.” David Heslin

“The memory is where films spend most of their time, and I always love thinking about Rivette and the actresses and the house – the pinnacle for many traditions and genres of cinema.” Leo Robson

“The most exuberant, haunting expression of female friendship in the history of the cinema.” Mary Wiles

Film	Year	Director
L'Argent	1983	Robert Bresson
Céline and Julie Go Boating	1974	Jacques Rivette
The Docks of New York	1928	Josef von Sternberg
French Cancan	1955	Jean Renoir
The Long Day Closes	1992	Terence Davies
The Magnificent Ambersons	1942	Orson Welles
On Dangerous Ground	1951	Nicholas Ray
SPIONE	1928	Fritz Lang
Wagon Master	1950	John Ford
Yi Yi	1999	Edward Yang

Fernando F. Croce

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