DT
16Feb13
Bonus marks for the line, “Homosexual spleen in the barn, disguised as Alsatians”.
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ENFANT TERRIBLE
8Mar13
Rivette assimilating Resnais' influence into his personal aesthetic. A humourous Marienbad with a scent of Daisies. Wonderful to see how the concept of recurring segments of the same long phrase worked perfectly in two radically different environments.
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DT
16Feb13
Through the Looking Glass by Rivette, indeed. Practically Nouvelle Vague in its frolic, colour and folly, with its beguilingly coy duo dynamic; Rivette returning from the bookish leviathans of L’amour fou and Out 1 with a work more outwardly playful on the whole, while still not wholly dissimilar in style, in its elongated theatrics and extended play, here in and amongst its induction of its multiplicitous realities. The New Wave’s precursor to Mulholland Drive, then Inland Empire; repeat viewings required.
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Trolley Freak
25Jan13
When Céline scurries past like the White Rabbit from Alice In Wonderland, Julie follows only to become involved in a complex excursion into memory and illusion.. Inspired equally by Lewis Carroll and Henry James, what we have here is nothing less than an innovative examination of the nature of film watching itself. Highly improvised and experimental in structure, Rivette's difficult-to-describe film is exhilarating..
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sewslow
19Dec12
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/rivette/OK/subversivefantasy.html Fantastic reading. The same site has some critique of earlier films as well.
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Kyle Lewis
25Nov12
After seeing Vera Chytilova's Daises, this film feels like a French cousin to that crazy Chech film with a Rivetteian twist.
Ryan Estabrooks
8Oct12
Entertaining movie, but not as good as I was hoping. Feels like two separate movies slapped together; I didn't think the story-within-the-story was nearly as entertaining as the girls themselves.
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Gylfi
4Oct12
This has become one of my favourite films, unbelievable fun. I will put it in the same category as Pierrot le fou, both are so much fucking fun ! Looking forward to seeing more films by Rivette.
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Mathew (sic)
29Aug12
Ending reminded me of Queneau's The Blue Flowers. Finished with a literary metaphor as two narratives pass each other by, with a return to the beginning.
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WhatsUpWill
5Aug12
I hate watching people laugh on screen about things that I don't find funny. It is like they are trying to project FUN into their film! Blah. Otherwise, it was quite enjoyable and engaging, if a tad long.
wolfmansRazor
2Aug12
Who would guess that 3-hour-plus experimental film could be so consistently fun? Berto and Labourier worked with Rivette to create their characters, and they are simply a joy to be with. Around the time Julie ruins Celine's magic act I found myself falling in love. But don't be fooled into thinking it's all just a lark. Rivette has devised a very precise filmic architecture based on doublings and intracommenting.
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Judicial Joe
10Jun12
Starts off as a fun romp around 1970s Paris, descends into rehashing a terrible melodrama-within-a-film, and ends with one of the most thought-provking finales in recent memory. I need to see it again to fully get it.
Cole Caudle
10Jun12
Julie and Celine skating down a Parisian street both dressed in their best Irma Vep outfits--one of my favourite movie moments.
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WhatsUpWill
5Aug12
You can save yourself 100 minutes and watch A Woman is a Woman or Zazie Dans Le Metro instead.
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Matt Reddick
5Aug12
Hmmm. Well, I thought I read someone calling it a mind fuck. I'll try again- describe it however you wish, it can still be enjoyable.
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Matt Reddick
5Aug12
Oh, and while it's not the best way to describe him, Zulawski is the only mindfucker.
Roscoe
6May12
A 45 minute film in a three and a quarter hour package. They seem to have had some fun making it, much more than I had while sitting through it.
Matthew Martens
16Apr12
A key text of 1970s cinema -- and, more generally, of that strange and giddy suspended moment when dreams of counterculture began to go up in smoke but what would replace them remained far from clear -- C&J winningly, woozily dramatizes the efforts of two women to erase an obsolete, oppressive narrative. It doesn't hurt to fall off the moon. It may not help a great deal either, but time will tell, morning by morning.
film_lies101
27Dec11
A case where the parts are better than the sum. After watching the last 20 or so minutes, maybe its the other way round. In any case, it a wonderful representation of experimental cinema at its lightest, most playful, and fun. The characters are charming and easy to relate to on some level. The only flaw really s the length, though I am huge fan of Inland Empire. I will be checking out other works by Rivette.
tinahassannia
29Oct11
Rivette's meaningful exploration into questions of character, performance and diegesis are only rewarded more significance by Berto and Labourier's delightful romps.
Kevin likes this
Abby.
8May11
Magical and delightfully surreal. Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier are wonderful. Criterion, please release this.
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SahilZafar
19Mar11
This is creativity at its very best. Jacques Rivette's highly imaginative movie, everything is pitch-perfect with it. It's like watching Bunuel's surrealism, Bergman's imagination, Fellini's charms and Lynch's illusions in one movie. This dreamy movie is must-watch for people who admire surrealistically creative cinema! Highly Recommended!
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Pierluigi Puccini
10Jun11
I hate it too. every pseudo intellectual bastard has declared his/her love to this piece of shit
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Mitchell Brown
10Jun11
Fear not, dear Polyglot. It was just my weak attempt at sarcasm. I really love the movie more than just about any other, in my own parentless, pseudo-intellectual way!
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Pierluigi Puccini
11Jun11
Good for all of you. I just can't see anything remotely interesting in it. And I loathe fanboys, so...
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Mitchell Brown
11Jun11
I'm sorry that I enjoyed a movie that you disliked. I guess websites like this not only give people a platform to express opinions, but also gives them a platform to excoriate those who disagree with them. I never quite understood that reaction. If I love or hate a film, I am not personally affected by someone having the opposite reaction. In fact, I am kind of fascinated by that and want to understand the reaction. That kind of dialogue can't happen in an atmosphere like this, I guess. Oh, well. A lost oppurtunity.
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Mitchell Brown
12Jun11
Of course, you are right! And in the words of my friend Iago 'From this time forth I never will speak word'
