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...will be 80 next year, but France's premier romantic movie poet still has the industry and verve of a clever schoolboy--an honor student in the philosophy of the boudoir. In this delicious comedy a happily married bookseller (Marie Riviere) acts as matchmaker for her vintner friend (Beatrice Romand). Here is a film attentive to the generosity of friendship, the cruelty of courtship. As Riviere says, "I want all men to love me, especially those I don't love." But she, Romand and young ravisher Alexia Portal give viewers plenty to love. Modestly profound, Autumn Tale has the savor...
...Beatrice Romand as Sabine makes her character a real treat to which. We never know what she's going to do next-but we do know will have to do with the pursuit of Her Intended. As her victim, the selects a stereotype of bachelorhood--a rich, handsome. Parisian lawyer named Edmond (Andre Dussolier). Her game of cat and mouse monopolizes the rest of the film and her actions reveal her desperation in finding a true place for herself in society. Of course, various plans to entrap the unsuspecting Edmond are amusing in their simple...
...movie subserves the message about . Roman's portrayal of Sabine reveals an honest to fit in. Initially, Sabine appears to be nondescript--an average, appealing woman. But as the movie progresses, she becomes more and more attractive. Romand enables this gradual transition to occur by maintaining a freshness in Sabine's character. Her graceful movements and low lilting voice give Sabine's a youthfulness that shows the transitory nature of her desire for a husband...
...Romand's Sabine inspires similarly steady portrayals by the other actors. Dussolier, as the poor besieged Edmond, fills his character with the proper conceited detachment. And Arielle Dombasie as Sabine's best friend Clarisse creates the perfect foil for Sabine. Gorgeous and intelligent. Clarisse lives the perfect, foil for life--she's happily married and gainfully self-employed. Humoring her confused friend, Clarisse's devotion never fades...
...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...