Celine (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a Librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, finance, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'film-within-the-film' - a melodrama .. Read more
| Starring | Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier |
|---|---|
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Celine (Juliet Berto), a magician, and Julie (Dominique Labourier), a Librarian, meet in Montmartre and wind up sharing the same flat, bed, finance, clothes, identity and imagination. Soon, thanks to a magic sweet, they find themselves spectators, then participants, in a Henry James-inspired 'film-within-the-film' - a melodrama unfolding in a mysterious suburban house with the 'Phantom Ladies Over Paris' (Bulle Ogier and Marie-France Pisier), a sinister man (Barbet Schroeder) and his child. The atmosphere, however, is more Lewis Carroll, with Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier as twin Alices. The four main actresses improvised their own dialogue in collaboration with Rivette and scriptwriter Eduardo de Gregorio.
| Starring | Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier |
|---|---|
| Director | Jacques Rivette |
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 12 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 25 Sep 2006 Production year: 1974 |
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Favourite films are always the hardest to describe. There are the two pairs of actresses, Berto/Labourier and... read more on Time Out
Looking forward to a nice piece of French whimsy - but soon got tired of it's arty style and it simply didn't make me want to care about the two main ... more
I can see how the film is meant to be whimsical and zany in a very French way. However I simply found it irritating. It wa a '... more