Jacques Rivette's best-known film is an elaborate fairy tale with its literary roots in Lewis Carroll and Henry James, and in Borges; its filmic roots are in Méliès, Marienbad and Laurel and Hardy. In a film-within-a-film structure, memory and fantasy stretch an encounter between a librarian, Julie (Dominique Labourier), and a magician, Céline (Juliet Berto), into the past and the future, while never leaving the present. More whimsical, but no less labyrinthine, than Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us, the story involves a White Rabbit chase through Montmartre, a mysterious old house in the Paris suburbs, and strange potions in the form of little candies placed on the tongue. It is only by sucking on these sweets that Céline and Julie can recall what they've experienced in the house, where a haunting melodrama involving Bulle Ogier and Barbet Schroeder is being played out. Can they intervene to change the plot? A film that has retained its cult status even until now, Céline and Julie invites repeat viewings. It's the little candies.