Céline et Julie vont en bateau 1974

Nora Sayre, New York Times: When this movie sags, it becomes a series of skits, but the best parts do achieve the spontaneity and impudent freshness that this director relishes. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Jacques Rivette's 193-minute comic feminist extravaganza is as scary and unsettling in its narrative high jinks as it is exhilarating in its uninhibited slapstick. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: The loosely guided performances are often slack, and the thin depiction of daily life lessens the power of fantasy, yet Rivette's fretful view of the dangers of stories is, in effect, a self-portrait as a cinephile on the verge of hallucination. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Jacques Rivette's free-form dissertation on the interzone between performance and spectatorship is the ideal filmgoing experience, even as the 'story' transcends all long-standing rules of narrative engagement. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: A pleasant folly. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: An over indulged, overlong film that has some gem-like moments but also repetitiveness and preciosity. Read more