Rivette’s fifth film- a 193 minute comedy shot in a grainy crude 16mm
Mixes the comic whimsy of Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier (they have an undeniable chemistry), mystery and magic, and an airy self-awareness (they are having some laughs watching a film (albeit not a good one))
Repeated titles “but in the next morning…”
There’s some debate on how much of the film is improvised
Sloppily edited, and I don’t think this is the equivalent of Godard’s jump cuts skipping the fluff in Breathless– this is Rivette with a very long form
Fragmented splice editing- sometimes a cutaway and sometimes a simple, black frame
Is Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating(1974) the most overrated film of 1974? because it sits at #213 on the TSPDT all time list.
@Anderson- it is- yes
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