'Celine and Julie go boating'

This is a terrible film. Having looked forward for many months to watching this film, which makes so many top ten lists and has stills reproduced everywhere, I am disappointed. It is self-indulgent and then some not just from the revoltingly flaccid direction but also the performance of the women themselves. Constantly giggling and self-consciously gawping in cute wonder at the camera they prance and preen through the film with fay and unendearing mannerisms that are enough to make you want to wash your hands of the seventies for good.