Independent distributors New Yorker Video have announced that they are bringing back to theaters and preparing a Blu-ray release of French New Wave master Jacques Rivette's biggest commercial hit
Céline et Julie vont en bateau a.k.a
Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974). The Blu-ray release is expected to hit retail shelves in Spring 2012.
This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie, a librarian, and the flamboyant Celine, a magician of sorts - a kind of White Rabbit who leads Julie right through the Looking Glass into a world of her imagination. With the help of some magic, memory-inducing candy, Celine and Julie get plugged into a bizarre drama in a mysterious, possibly haunted, house. They enter the house in the guise of nurses and encounter two women, who are in love with the same man. The man is a widower who had promised his wife that he would not remarry as long as their invalid daughter was alive. As the competition in the triangle reaches a murderous level, the high- spirited heroines plot a daring rescue of the young victim. One of the seminal films of seventies, Celine and Julie go Boating is a brilliant meditation on the art of cinema and the nature of fantasy. It is regarded by many as New Wave master Jacques Rivette' (
La Belle Noiseuse) most accomplished film.