Celine and Julie Go Boating
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Julie, a librarian and sometime magician, meets Céline, a young cabaret dancer. Together, they become the heroines of a fantastic quest that takes them to an old house where ghost actors re-enact the same comedy over and over again.
Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette was a French filmmaker. Like his New Wave contemporaries, Rivette started out as a film critic. With Éric Rohmer, he founded the Gazette du cinéma in 1950 before joining the Cahiers du cinéma, a journal of which he became editor-in-chief in 1963. He moved into directing in 1958 with Paris Belongs to Us. He achieved success with The Nun (based on Diderot's novel), which was released in 1967 after initially being banned by censorship. As his career took off, he embarked on a series of experimental films in which he gave actors significant freedom, either through improvisation or by working with them on the script beforehand. In this period, he directed Out 1: Noli me tangere, a film over twelve hours long, in 1971, followed by Céline and Julie Go Boating in 1974. He also achieved international success with La belle noiseuse (1991) which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
