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It may be a cliché, but good filmmaking really does feel like magic, with an atmospheric image and an effective edit akin to a magician’s sleight of hand. Playing at the IFC Center starting Friday, the 1974 cult French film “Céline and Julie Go Boating” makes the “magic of moviemaking” plain when, about an hour in, Céline performs a magic show while Julie watches and begins to experience quick flashbacks to a mysterious house she had just visited. Hecklers jeer at the cheap tricks, yet director Jacques Rivette implies that even the simplest of optical illusions can prompt remembrances and creativity — provided one is in a receptive state of mind.
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|It may be a cliché, but good filmmaking really does feel like magic, with an atmospheric image and an effective edit akin to a magician’s sleight of hand. Playing at the IFC Center starting Friday, the 1974 cult French film “Céline and Julie Go Boating” makes the “magic of moviemaking” plain when, about an hour in, Céline performs a magic show while Julie watches and begins to experience quick flashbacks to a mysterious house she had just visited. Hecklers jeer at the cheap tricks, yet director Jacques Rivette implies that even the simplest of optical illusions can prompt remembrances and creativity — provided one is in a receptive state of mind.
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