Céline und Julie fahren Boot (1974)

Céline und Julie fahren Boot: Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier. A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

“CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (5 outta 5 stars)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWow… one of those really great, really strange movies that I love so much! Over 3 hours long but I got so absorbed in the story that I didnu0026#39;t even notice it was that long. I wanted it to be longer, in fact! Kinda hard to describe… sort of a cross between a Bunuel and a Rohmer movie… starring a French Laverne and Shirley. The plot takes its time getting started… but once the premise became evident I was totally hooked! Our 2 heroines take turns going into a strange house. They emerge some hours later, totally disoriented and with no recollection of what happened inside. Later they are able to recall certain events… but not the whole story. This goes on day after day… the exact same scenes take place with the 2 women taking turns playing a nurse to a sick child… who, it turns out, may have been murdered by someone else in the house! But who? The girls keep going back into the house to find out the secret. The 2 women who play the leads are EXCELLENT! They start out not knowing each other but become close friends as the events unfold. They are both slightly kooky and enjoy playing pranks on each other… at times taking over the other personu0026#39;s life while that person is busy in the house. Some of the later scenes in the movie… when the 2 girls go into the house together… are HILARIOUS! I was actually laughing at loud at stuff… but I fully admit that normal people donu0026#39;t always see the humour in the same things that I do. 8) Wow, I need to see this movie again! Will someone PLEASE release it on DVD with a decent picture? This grainy bootleg just doesnu0026#39;t do it justice.”