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Rate. Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested. Director Éric Rohmer Stars Béatrice Romand André Dussollier Féodor ...
The "Comedy and Proverbs" series is a collection of six spiritually and poetically inspired films completed by Éric Rohmer in the 1980s, capturing the emotions of women through the theme of French proverbs to explore the complex emotions between people.
Comedies And Proverbs: An Eric Rohmer Retrospective. The tiny stations of life, and the freshness of human experience subtly structured into a film. These are two qualities immediately recognisable in Eric Rohmer’s work, a director who is a quiet iconoclast: classical, modern, revolutionary. Over his fifty-four year career, Rohmer has ...
Apr 4, 2010 · Love and Desire in Eric Rohmer’s ‘Comedies and Proverbs’ and ‘Tales of the Four Seasons’. If Eric Rohmer’s ‘Six contes moraux’ (‘Six Moral Tales’, 1962-1972) were famously variations on the theme of a man betrothed to one woman and tempted by another, only to return to his initial choice, his ‘Comédies et proverbs ...
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- Full Moon in Paris
- The Aviator’s Wife
- The Green Ray
- Pauline at The Beach
- Boyfriends and Girlfriends
- A Good Marriage
Despite its fairly strong and likeable characters, Full Moon in Paris lacked the other films’ more interesting scenarios. Louise decides to move away from her boyfriend into an apartment in Paris where she contemplates their relationship. This edition in the series meandered around much less engaging subject matter than the other entries, though it...
One of the slightly more tragic films on the list. A student decides to stalk his girlfriend who he suspects of cheating on him, before deciding to start following a different woman. It is the quintessential Rohmer romance, featuring great characters, beautiful dialogue, and new ideas on romance that you might not have thought about.
If you’re a fan of down-in-the-dumps protagonists, then you’ll like this one far more than I did. Delphine deals with her loneliness by trying to distract herself by going on a vacation. Though she was a complex and well written character, this was the only film where I didn’t like the main character. Despite that, it still managed to be a bit more...
One quote from this film that stuck out to me was: “Love is a form of insanity.” I think Rohmer pretty much hit the nail on the head there. Marion is about to divorce her husband, and goes on holiday with her niece where she meets an old flame. Pauline at the Beach features some very fun characters and a strange love square of sorts, as well as som...
Featuring another love square of sorts, Rohmer yet again is able to unpack the intricacies of love, lust, and friendship in this fun and engaging story of Blanche who gets tongue-tied around her crush and doesn’t seem to know what she wants. I think the ending is what edges this over Pauline at the Beach for me because it is very satisfying.
While its premise of a woman trying her hardest to marry the first man she sees might sound a bit ridiculous, it makes for the second most enjoyable film on this list. Blanche is a brilliant, outspoken protagonist, and watching her chase after a man who is clearly far from interested is highly entertaining. Excellent characterisation and interestin...
The Comedies and Proverbs series brings together six of the Éric Rohmer's best; the first entry in the series, The Aviator's Wife, sees François become obsessed with the idea that his Girlfriend is being unfaithful.
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