A strangely beguiling mystery of a journey, Jacques Rivette's surrealist "Celine and Julie Go Boating" floats on the placid lake surface between quasi-reality and nutty fantasia. Julie (Dominique Labourier), a librarian with a love of the magicks, sees freewheeling Celine (Juliet Berto), a magician, in a park, and begins to follow her through the streets, avenues and inclines of Paris. Eventually forming a peculiar sort of friendship (they each impersonate the other in what would have been key moments in their lives), with Celine moving in with her, the two women then embark upon a byzantine murder mystery taking place at an old, abandoned mansion in the city.
Claire Denis, Martin Scorsese, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, David Cronenberg, Josephine Decker, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mia Hansen-Løve the list goes on.