Juliet Berto - Celine and Julie Go Boating

Shot casually in a documentary style, we see a red-haired woman—we will learn that it is Julie - sitting on a bench in a pleasant but rather non-descript Parisian park. She is reading a book, we can see, on magic incantations. But after a few minutes of random looks around the park—children playing, a cat on the prowl for pigeons—Julie is suddenly taken by the sight of a lithe woman woozily staggering across the park, a long scarf dangling from her neck. No one else seems to notice the dazed woman when she drops that scarf except for Julie, who leaps up from her park bench. She calls after her. Julie will chase after Céline, at first seemingly only on the mundane task of returning a dropped scarf. But with just that simple act, the magic of the narrative—both of this particular story and, in Rivette's meta-approach, that of cinema itself—begins....read more from Wikipedia.


This is a really interesting and weird movie full of chasing, dreaming and unreal moments. Also it portrays Paris quite nicely and if you have been there it seems very familiar. I chose this portrait of Julet Berto who was playing great role of Celine. I found her coolness and arrogance in the beginning of the movie very amusing. How could she be so cold?!? Julie has unfortunately left this world on 1990 due to a cancer.



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