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Pauline at the Beach

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...

7.1

1983 Comedy 94 min Play

5.3

A Modern Coed

Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release -- 1966. During the film's short run, the narrator continues to point out that during the advent of World War II, only 21,000 women attended college and made only a 30 % of the student body, a number that by the 1964-1965 school year had passed the 120,000 mark. Instead of opting to live according to what was expected of them, now they were joining the work ...

5.3

1966 Documentary 13 min Play

7.9

My Night at Maud’s

The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

7.9

1969 Comedy 111 min Play

7.6

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

7.6

1987 Comedy 95 min Play

6.5

Suzanne’s Career

In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.

6.5

1963 Drama 54 min Play

7.4

The Green Ray

A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.

7.4

1986 Drama 98 min Play

7.7

Changing Landscapes

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about the meaning and experience of modern landscapes and the enigmatic characteristics of features such as canals, pylons and deserted factories. Rohmer also explores the role of landscape within different traditions of modern art and design and refers to specific architects, artists and engineers.

7.7

1964 Documentary 22 min Play

La Collectionneuse

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

1967 Comedy 89 min Play

Full Moon in Paris

Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.

1984 Drama 100 min Play

5.9

Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak

Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn't want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself ...

5.9

1951 Comedy 12 min Play

6.6

The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque

The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.

6.6

1993 Comedy 105 min Play

7.1

The Aviator’s Wife

A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…

7.1

1981 Comedy 104 min Play

7.4

Claire’s Knee

On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

7.4

1970 Drama 105 min Play

6.5

Nadja in Paris

Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust; she also likes to stroll about Paris.

6.5

1964 Drama 13 min Play

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.

1982 Comedy 97 min Play

6.9

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.

6.9

1963 Romance 23 min Play

6.4

Six in Paris

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.

6.4

1965 Comedy 95 min Play

7.3

Love in the Afternoon

The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral ...

7.3

1972 Drama 97 min Play

6.6

Véronique and Her Dunce

Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.

6.6

1959 Comedy 18 min Play

7.3

A Tale of Winter

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

7.3

1992 Comedy 114 min Play

7.1

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien. A classic Rohmer moral tale.

7.1

1987 Comedy 103 min Play

7.3

An Autumn Tale

Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

7.3

1998 Drama 112 min Play

6.4

The Marquise of O

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

6.4

1976 Drama 102 min Play

On Pascal

An episode of the educational TV series "En profil dans le texte" directed by Rohmer, on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, the subject of debate in Rohmer's film "My Night at Maud’s."

1965 Documentary 22 min Play