Céline and Julie Go Boating
of a surreal, drug-induced parallel universe; also like Alice, they ultimately become the heroines of the story that first imprisoned them. This enigmatic and fanciful film is one of the most distinctive and imaginative movies ever made. Rivette’ s 1974 exploration of the nature of narrative is the most mischievously immersive of the French New Wave, casually bending our perceptions of both time and space even as it keeps us fully aware of its richlyrendered world. Céline and Julie Go Boating was Rivette’ s biggest commercial hit in France, yet remains sadly unreleased on DVD in this country, so seize the chance to catch this master stroke of whimsy and wonderment on the big screen!
Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65. He has published and edited numerous books and has contributed to some of the world’ s most notable film publications, including Cahiers du cinéma and Film Comment. He openly promotes the dissemination and discussion of foreign film. His strong views on filmgoing in the U. S. hold that Hollywood and the media tend to limit the full range of the films Americans can see, at the cineplex and elsewhere. Jonathan Rosenbaum appears in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism discussing the film criticism of Manny Farber, and giving his approval to young people writing film reviews today on the Internet. Rosenbaum has long been a champion of the films of Jacques Rivette and is one of the authorities on his work which he has examined closely for decades.
L’ Amour Fou
Saturday, September 7 JACQUES RIVETTE L’ Amour Fou dir. Jacques Rivette, France, 1968, 35mm, b / w, French w / English subtitles, 255 min.
This legendary, largely unseen, four-hour masterpiece is the film that solidified Jacques Rivette’ s reputation as a major innovator in French cinema. A study of disintegrating personal relationships, L’ Amour Fou focuses on a theater group preparing to stage Racine’ s Andromaque as they are being filmed by a television crew. During the rehearsal, the play’ s director recasts the lead role, replacing his wife with his former mistress. The film, shot in both 16mm and 35mm, developed from the ideas of the cast and technicians who improvised during filming. Its length is integral to its meaning and texture, bearing what critic Jean-André Fieschi calls,“ the fruit of an impossible encounter between the two extremes of absolute control and absolute freedom.”
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