This is pretty much the fastest three hours in movie history. The film’s full title is CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING/PHANTOM LADIES OVER PARIS and it remains Rivette’s most famous and most accessible film. Accessible not in the sense that it has a plot or that it proceeds linearly but simply that the sense of fun and the bond between Dominique Labourier and Juliet Berto is so refreshing and energizing that you get inside this film immediately.

People say that French movies are dull, pretentious and intellectual. CELINE AND JULIE is a heartwarming F—K You to this BS premise.