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Directed and Written by Eric Rohmer...
Directed and Written by Eric Rohmer...
...heart François (Philippe Marlaud), the protagonist of Eric Rohmer's intelligently talkative movie, is every bit as bonkers over his lady as William Hurt is over Kathleen Turner in Body Heat. And Anne (Marie Rivière) is very possibly a greater pain to be with. Too self-absorbed even to fake passion, she does not seem to take even mildly sadistic pleasure in making François, among others, dance to her off-key tunes. It may be that she unconsciously seeks revenge because she has been jilted by her married lover, the aviator...
...behavior, at once coltish and wise, is an implicit commentary on his lugubrious single-mindedness. Lucie is a creature, as Rohmer sees her, of impulse and open air, while Anne is seen mostly in her cramped apartment, which can be seen as the logical extension of her cramped spirit. This, alas, is something François does not notice. The most the movie concedes him is the possibility that by sorting through his many wrong assumptions about the essentially innocent man he was following, he may have taken a small step toward extricating himself from his deluding passion. But like...
FOREIGN* My Night at Maud's (1970). Eric Rohmer's elegant, intellectual comedy is the era's great all-talking picture...