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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 38, Number 17. July 16, 1973

Celine and Julie go Boating—Jacques Rivette — France

Celine and Julie go Boating—Jacques Rivette

France

This was the marathon event of the festival—three hours and thirteen minutes long and this was one of my major criticisms: it took too long to say very little.

It has been described as a kind of Alice in Wonderland fantasy and it has undertones of magic and the occult—Julie reads Tarot cards and Celine is a magician. The story concerns two girls who visit an old house on alternate days, emerging several hours after they entered, dazed, with no memory of what has happened to them until they suck a sweet which they have received in the house. The jumbled story Hashes before them of an old fashioned melodrama—each day a different part of the same story. Finally the girls decided to change the ending of the story, escaping from from the house with the victim. The whole film is a kind of wispy nonsensical fairy tale yet it somehow managed to hold its audience right until the end even though someone saw fit to have no intermission.