Once again poor Beatrice Romand needs a bloke. She’s had enough of having it off with a married man. “I’m getting married” she tells him “to the man i decide on, who appeals to me. I’ll be very choosy. I’m different. I can do things my way”. She is different. An odd gawky bird is [...]
“With him there is no intellectual complicity, no affinity, or real tenderness” So says girl to her ex (Philosophy tutor) about her soon to be ex younger boyfriend. Like with all Rohmer films there’s a lot of “complicity” going on. The weaving of head talk into intricate tangles of complicity. The frizzy brunette in this [...]
This is the film that got me into thinking I would like Rohmer films. Hope I’m not going to be horribly disappointed (given how irritated I’ve been with his last 4 efforts) It’s dreamy summer vacation time in the French Alps boating on the lake. There’s a precocious girl, Laura. She’s 16 but looks about [...]
