Celine and Julie Go Boating Movie Review 1974

Strange fantasy follows magician Celine (Berto) and her librarian friend, Julie (Labourier). Celine sometimes works as a governess for a little girl who lives with her widowed father in a possibly haunted house. Two women are in love with the father but he'd promised his wife never to remarry as long as their invalid daughter was still alive. Celine and Julie become worried for the little girl and decide to rescue her. An adaptation of the Henry James story "A Romance of Certain Old Clothes." French with subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS
Running time 193 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Magic, Romantic Triangles, Creepy Houses, Dads, Fantasy, Adapted from a Story, Books to Film: Henry James

Screenplay

Jacques Rivette, Eduardo Di Gregorio

Cast

Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Philippe Clevenot, Nathalie Asnor

Cinematography

Jacques Renard

Director

Jacques Rivette

Music

Jean-Marie Senia

Producer

Les Films du Losange