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...PROLOGUE for Eric Rohmer's situation comedy Pauline at the Beach is a proverb from Chretian de Troyes--"A Wagging Tongue Bites Itself Off." That simple phrase captures perfectly the essence of this French film, in which the adults often act like children and the children seem like mature adults. It is set at a small resort town in Brittany, where the young and old characters claim they understand what love is--they discuss it incessantly and they try to capture it. But in the end they discover they have only flirted with passion...
...year contract with the BBC for first rights in the U.S., and nearly 40% of its fare was composed of such British shows as the political spoof Yes, Minister and the detective series Shoestring. Besides showing distinctive foreign films (Federico Fellini's City of Women, Eric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife), TEC had exclusive rights to such Broadway shows as Pippin and Sweeney Todd...
...THOSE OLD sterotypes are no longer valid, Still, Rohmer shows that although people have to deal with the pressures of modern society, a little dreaming never hurts. Through Sabine's experiences, Rohmer enables us to see what happens when the balance between reality and fantasy gets disrupted. The lightness of the film reveals an optimism about man's ability to thrive in the hectic world provided people don't get caught up in extremes as Sabine does...
...remaining dormant until some temporary weakness of the mind or spirit permits it to break loose. Surely such a classic pathology lies behind the unexpected passion that afflicts the otherwise kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged in to excess, also provide a breeding ground for love gone lunatic...
...similar dry, wry spirit, something of a trademark with Eric Rohmer (Claire's Knee, The Aviator's Wife), moves through Le Beau Manage. A brisk young woman named Sabine (Beatrice Romand) quite sensibly grows tired of transitory affairs (and the preoccupations married men bring to them) and calmly informs friends and family that she is about to marry, though she does not yet know whom. She is confident, however, based on past experience, that she can ensnare any man she wants. Her choice is a good-looking lawyer (Andre Dussollier), the right number of years older, the right...