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Celine and Julie Go Boating – 1974 Rivette
- 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
- Tangential
- Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1974
Drake2020-08-05T10:59:49+00:00
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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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