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A Good Marriage. 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.
Apr 4, 2010 · 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’ (‘Comedies and Proverbs’, 1980-1987) and ‘Contes des quatre saisons’ (‘Tales of the ...
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Set throughout France, Tales of the Four Seasons is a cycle to stand alongside the director’s two earlier acclaimed film series, Six Moral Tales and Comedies and Proverbs. By turns comic and melancholic, breezy and richly philosophical, these bittersweet tales of love, longing, and the inevitable misunderstandings that shape human ...
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.
- A Tale of Springtime. Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1990 • France. Starring Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel. In the first film of Tales of the Four Seasons, a burgeoning friendship between philosophy teacher Jeanne (Anne Teyssèdre) and pianist Natacha (Florence Darel) is strained by jealousy, suspicion, and ...
- A Tale of Winter. Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1992 • France. Starring Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti. The second installment of Tales of the Four Seasons is among the most spiritual and emotional films of Eric Rohmer’s storied career.
- A Tale of Summer. Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1996 • France. Starring Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon. According to Eric Rohmer, the third film of Tales of the Four Seasons is his “most personal vehicle.”
- A Tale of Autumn. Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1998 • France. Starring Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt. The concluding installment of the Tales of the Four Seasons tetralogy is a breezy take on the classic American romantic comedies that influenced Eric Rohmer and his New Wave peers.
Buy. April 17 – 30. On the occasion of our revival of Rohmer’s Full Moon in Paris, we present the rest of the Comedies and Proverbs cycle (including several new digital restorations). See more for less with a 3+ Film Package!
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.
