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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Downplayed, as the characters never address the audience directly, but it is one of the themes of the movie. Céline and Julie treat the events at 7 bis, rue de Nadir-aux-Pommes more like a movie than things that actually happened. The whole point.resolution is the girls' basically making a SelfInsert FixItFic to rescue the murder victim.
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The film is more than three hours long, unconventional, and quite hard to find.
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* CreepyMonotone: [[The ghosts all speak in this]], in contrast with their behavior in the girls' flashbacks. [[spoiler:Except Madlyn].
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* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: A downplayed example, as Camille never outright impersonates her sister. She just looks enough like her to attract Olivier, and even spooks Madlyn when the little girl confuses her for her own dead mother.
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* SettleForSibling: Invoked by Camille, who dresses in her dead sister's clothes and tries to seduce her widower, Olivier, explicitly so he will fall for her for being so similar to his lost love.
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* Cloudcuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Both girls, but especially Julie.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Meek Sophie, the one who enforces Olivier's vow of never getting another partner and who acts the sweetest and most motherly around Madlyn, is actually her murderer.]]
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* EmergencyImpersonation: While they’re spending time [[spoiler:in the Haunted House]], Cèline and Julie fill in for each other. Cèline picks up the phone and talks with Julie’s ex-lover pretending to be her—she arranges a meeting, wears a red wig, [[spoiler:and purposedly blows the reunion, making him break up with Julie]]. Later in the movie, Julie goes to the Montmartre club where Cèline works and impersonates her during an audition for a world tour she's supposed to go on. [[spoiler:She sabotages it, insulting the businessmen ogling her during her number and running away]].
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* EmergencyImpersonation: While they’re spending time [[spoiler:in the Haunted House]], Cèline and Julie fill in for each other. Cèline picks up the phone and talks with Julie’s ex-lover pretending to be her—she arranges a meeting, wears a red wig, [[spoiler:and wig and purposedly blows the reunion, making him break up with Julie]].Julie. Later in the movie, Julie goes to the Montmartre club where Cèline works and impersonates her during an audition for a world tour she's supposed to go on. [[spoiler:She She sabotages it, insulting the businessmen ogling her during her number and running away]].away.
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* KissingCousins: Distant cousins Julie and Guilou are engaged until Céline-as-Julie breaks things off.
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* RedHerring: Blonde seductress Camille, intent on making widower Olivier stray from the vow he made to his dead wife to never get another partner. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Julie and Céline, who call her 'too guilty to actually be guilty'.
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* CatsAreMagic: This is a movie that heavily emphasizes magic, both practical and performative. Cats are present in multiple scenes, and sometimes are even the focus.
* CuteGhostGirl: [[spoiler:Madlyn, technically.]]
* MagiciansAreWizards: Subverted. Céline only uses real magic once she's embroiled in the murder mystery with actual witch Julie.
* {{Malaproper}}: Céline. For example, she calls a boa constrictor a 'boa cockstrictor'.
* NaturalElements: The ingredients for a memory potion are water, air (from an empty perfume bottle), earth (plants) and fire ignited in the four cardinal points.
* NaturalElements: The ingredients for a memory potion are water, air (from an empty perfume bottle), earth (plants) and fire ignited in the four cardinal points.
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* OurWitchesAreDifferent: Julie looks like a normal librarian and seemingly only studies magic in theory, but eventually we see she can make potions and talismans out of everyday objects.
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* UndeathlyPallor: [[spoiler:The haunted house inhabitants all have grey faces that stand out against the rest of their skin. The only exceptions are Julie and Céline, who are outsiders, and Madlyn, who is revived at the end.]]
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* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:Julie's fiance.]]
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* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Even though the title has a {{Double Meaning}} and is a {{Pun in French}}, Cèline and Julie actually do go boating... in the last five minutes of the film.film.
* FieryRedhead: Julie has curly red hair and is prone to emotional outbursts.
* GenreBusting: It's a surreal slice-of-life comedy mixed with a [[spoiler:supernatural]] murder mystery, with occasional bouts of social commentary sprinkled in.
* FieryRedhead: Julie has curly red hair and is prone to emotional outbursts.
* GenreBusting: It's a surreal slice-of-life comedy mixed with a [[spoiler:supernatural]] murder mystery, with occasional bouts of social commentary sprinkled in.
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%%* PaperThinDisguiseCéline and Julie live in a world where magic [[spoiler:and ghosts]] are seemingly real, candy can bring back memories (and if you don't have candy you can make a memory potion and it'll work just as well) and plastic eyes can be used to make talismans. Yet no one outside of the protagonists seems to be aware of the existence of magic, and even they for the most part handle their day-to-day problems in mundane, if bombastic, ways.
* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler:Céline wakes up on a park bench, giving the viewer the impression that it was all in her head... and then Julie runs by in a hurry, leading Céline to chase her.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[The haunted house ghosts don't look much different from living people, except they talk in monotones, have grey faces and ignore everything that is not part of their 'scenes'.]]
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* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler:Céline wakes up on a park bench, giving the viewer the impression that it was all in her head... and then Julie runs by in a hurry, leading Céline to chase her.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: [[The haunted house ghosts don't look much different from living people, except they talk in monotones, have grey faces and ignore everything that is not part of their 'scenes'.]]
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The film is more than three hours long, unconventional, and extremely hard to find, but also funny, entertaining, creative, light-hearted and charming.
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The film opens with soft-spoken red-headed Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian lounging in a Parisan park whilst reading a book on magic (the occult kind). StageMagician Céline (Juliet Berto) dashes past and drops an article of clothing; much like the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit Julie, sure enough, picks it up and pursues her]]. And it goes on from there.
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The film opens with soft-spoken red-headed Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian lounging in a Parisan UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}ian park whilst reading a book on magic (the occult kind). StageMagician Céline (Juliet Berto) dashes past and drops an article of clothing; much like the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit Julie, sure enough, picks it up and pursues her]]. And it goes on from there.
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** It has been described as having an almost identical, though comedic, version of the story that ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' later revisited, adding a more explicit lesbian subtext.
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''Céline et Julie vont en bateau'' (''Céline and Julie Go Boating'') or ''Phantom Ladies over Paris'' is a 1974 French [[LeFilmArtistique arthouse]] MagicRealism film directed by Jacques Rivette with an understated matter-of-fact tone, [[MindScrew crafted out of sheer WTF]]. The film's French title contains a pun; "vont en bateau" can also mean "get caught up in a story" or "go crazy".
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''Céline et Julie vont en bateau'' (''Céline and Julie Go Boating'') or ''Phantom Ladies over Paris'' is a 1974 French [[LeFilmArtistique arthouse]] MagicRealism film directed by Jacques Rivette Creator/JacquesRivette with an understated matter-of-fact tone, [[MindScrew crafted out of sheer WTF]]. The film's French title contains a pun; "vont en bateau" can also mean "get caught up in a story" or "go crazy".
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The film opens with soft-spoken [[RedheadedHero red-headed]] Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian lounging in a Parisan park whilst reading a book on magic (the occult kind). StageMagician Céline (Juliet Berto) dashes past and drops an article of clothing; much like the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit Julie, sure enough, picks it up and pursues her]]. And it goes on from there.
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The film opens with soft-spoken [[RedheadedHero red-headed]] red-headed Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian lounging in a Parisan park whilst reading a book on magic (the occult kind). StageMagician Céline (Juliet Berto) dashes past and drops an article of clothing; much like the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit Julie, sure enough, picks it up and pursues her]]. And it goes on from there.
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* ComedicSociopath: Céline (and arguably Julie).
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* ButtMonkey: [[spoiler:Julie's fiance.]]
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'''''Céline et Julie vont en bateau''''' (''Céline and Julie Go Boating'') or '''''Phantom Ladies over Paris''''' is a 1974 French [[LeFilmArtistique arthouse]] MagicRealism film directed by Jacques Rivette with an understated matter-of-fact tone, [[MindScrew crafted out of sheer WTF]]. The film's French title contains a pun; "vont en bateau" can also mean "get caught up in a story" or "go crazy".
The film opens with soft-spoken [[RedheadedHero red-headed]] Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian lounging in a Parisan park whilst reading a book on magic (the occult kind). StageMagician Céline (Juliet Berto) dashes past and drops an article of clothing; much like the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit Céline, sure enough, picks it up and pursues her]]. And it goes on from there.
The film is, at heart, a reflection on the nature of the narratives of books and movies; with particular emphasis on the [[BreakingTheFourthWall Breaking of the Fourth Wall]] and insertion of the viewer into the story. Furthermore, it is about adults undergoing age regression and escaping back to the playfulness, innocence and irrationality of childhood.
The film is more than three hours long, unconventional, and extremely hard to find, but also funny, entertaining, creative, light-hearted and charming.
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* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream?]]
* AnimalMotifs: Cats appear everywhere.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The whole point.
* [[spoiler:ButtMonkey]]: [[spoiler:Julie's fiance.]]
* ComedicSociopath: Céline (and arguably Julie).
* [[spoiler:DisposableFiance]]
* GainaxEnding
* GayParee
* GenreShift: The {{Flashback}} scenes [[spoiler:inside the HauntedHouse]] practically seem to belong to a different movie, intentionally so.
* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]
* [[spoiler:HauntedHouse]]
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Céline pulls this on Julie with a coin when they're debating who gets to go the house on a particular day.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The title characters, in a surprisingly short time.
* LeFilmArtistique
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Kind of a habit for director Jacques Rivette, and this film certainly has moments of this. Take for instance, the opening footchase (see ShoutOut) that seems to go on and on until the heroines have practically covered all of Montmartre.
* MagicRealism
* MindScrew
* [[spoiler:OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* PaperThinDisguise
* RedheadedHero: Julie.
* RunningGag: "But, next morning..."
* [[spoiler:SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* ShaggyDogStory: Can be interpreted as this.
* ShoutOut: To ''Alice in Wonderland''.
* SliceOfLife
* SpyCatsuit
* StageMagician: Céline.
* [[StrangeGirl Strange Girls]]
* TarotTroubles: Céline reads the fortune of a fellow librarian and inevitably, the death cards comes up. She informs said librarian that it just means change.
* [[WidgetSeries WTF]]: It's a Weird Thing from France.
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'''''Céline et Julie vont en bateau''''' (''Céline and Julie Go Boating'') or '''''Phantom Ladies over Paris''''' is a 1974 French [[LeFilmArtistique arthouse]] MagicRealism film directed by Jacques Rivette with an understated matter-of-fact tone, [[MindScrew crafted out of sheer WTF]]. The film's French title contains a pun; "vont en bateau" can also mean "get caught up in a story" or "go crazy".
The film opens with soft-spoken [[RedheadedHero red-headed]] Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian lounging in a Parisan park whilst reading a book on magic (the occult kind). StageMagician Céline (Juliet Berto) dashes past and drops an article of clothing; much like the White Rabbit from ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit Céline, sure enough, picks it up and pursues her]]. And it goes on from there.
The film is, at heart, a reflection on the nature of the narratives of books and movies; with particular emphasis on the [[BreakingTheFourthWall Breaking of the Fourth Wall]] and insertion of the viewer into the story. Furthermore, it is about adults undergoing age regression and escaping back to the playfulness, innocence and irrationality of childhood.
The film is more than three hours long, unconventional, and extremely hard to find, but also funny, entertaining, creative, light-hearted and charming.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]: [[spoiler:OrWasItADream?]]
* AnimalMotifs: Cats appear everywhere.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The whole point.
* [[spoiler:ButtMonkey]]: [[spoiler:Julie's fiance.]]
* ComedicSociopath: Céline (and arguably Julie).
* [[spoiler:DisposableFiance]]
* GainaxEnding
* GayParee
* GenreShift: The {{Flashback}} scenes [[spoiler:inside the HauntedHouse]] practically seem to belong to a different movie, intentionally so.
* [[spoiler:GroundhogDayLoop]]
* [[spoiler:HauntedHouse]]
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Céline pulls this on Julie with a coin when they're debating who gets to go the house on a particular day.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The title characters, in a surprisingly short time.
* LeFilmArtistique
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: Kind of a habit for director Jacques Rivette, and this film certainly has moments of this. Take for instance, the opening footchase (see ShoutOut) that seems to go on and on until the heroines have practically covered all of Montmartre.
* MagicRealism
* MindScrew
* [[spoiler:OurGhostsAreDifferent]]
* PaperThinDisguise
* RedheadedHero: Julie.
* RunningGag: "But, next morning..."
* [[spoiler:SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]]
* ShaggyDogStory: Can be interpreted as this.
* ShoutOut: To ''Alice in Wonderland''.
* SliceOfLife
* SpyCatsuit
* StageMagician: Céline.
* [[StrangeGirl Strange Girls]]
* TarotTroubles: Céline reads the fortune of a fellow librarian and inevitably, the death cards comes up. She informs said librarian that it just means change.
* [[WidgetSeries WTF]]: It's a Weird Thing from France.
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