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 [...]
Gaspard, guy with guitar, is on “vacance” in Brittany. Mop-haired curls, young, good-looking: “Instead of hanging around, get a girl for the summer” says Margot the friendly waitress he’s met already. He’s got her anyway, seemingly as a friend only (cus she’s sort of in love with a bloke who’s 5,000 miles away) They do [...]
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 [...]
Blanche (right in pic) is nice. Blanche is shy. She never finds fault. She hates lying. She “seems all innocent and sweet“. She keeps going on about how ugly she is. She hasn’t had a boyfriend for 2 years. Typically – for a Rohmer film – this is all the usual fare: boys and girls [...]
Been watching alot of French films in the last couple of months. In fact I’ve watched by far more films from France (26) than any other nation – and that includes England (9) and the US (6) In fact I’ve not – deliberately – watched an American film since Goodfellas back in June. I’ve wanted [...]
Yet another Eric Rohmer film with an irritating female in the lead role. It has to be Rohmer’s directing; he wants you to see conflicted modern females as preciously, worthily, troubled. Whereas all I see is precious, useless, self-absorption. The Felicie (Charlotte Very above) in this film has 2 current boyfriends in love with her [...]
Wintery scenes in black and white. Made me nostalgic for snow. That’s Jean-Louis Trintignant declaring love to Francoise, the blonde catholic bird he’s capturing (in his tight-arsed arms) – and gonna make his little wifey. He’s just come from spending the night sleeping with Maud. On top of her bed next to her but not [...]
Pascale Ogier playing Louise (in the pic above) kills this film stone dead for me. Baby-dolled, soppy-eyed, big-haired, stick-insect. “You appear very ethereal” says Octave (who wants to get more than friendship going with her, but she keeps kneeing him in the nuts) For ethereal, substitute squeakily ingratiating. God she’s irritating! Octave likes explaining her [...]
