La Transversale : Time Travelling

Celine and Julie go boating

Céline et Julie vont en bateau

Jacques Rivette

1974
France
3h12
Fiction
Col.
French without subtitles

Through a series of chance meetings, Céline, a shy librarian, and Julie, a cabaret performer and magician, strike up a friendship. Julie moves into Céline’s apartment and recounts a strange experience she had when visiting a boarded up old house. Intrigued, Céline visits the mysterious house and has exactly the same experience. Both women find themselves transported into a parallel reality, playing the part of a housemaid to a wealthy widower, Olivier, and his house guests, Sophie and Camille. The latter are madly in love with Olivier, but he has sworn to his wife, before she died, that he would not remarry whilst his daughter was still alive. To their mutual horror, during their increasingly frequent trips to this parallel universe, Céline and Julie discover that Olivier’s daughter is killed, but who is the murderer?

Cast
Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Screenplay
Jacques Rivette, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Photography
Jacques Renard
Sound
Paul Lainé, Elvire Lerner, Gilbert Pereira
Music
Jean-Marie Sénia
Editing
Nicole Lubchantsky
Production
Les Films du Losange

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