Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1982 • France
Starring Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle
“Who doesn’t daydream? Who doesn’t build castles in the air?” A proverb by French poet Jean de La Fontaine provides the inspiration for the second film in Eric Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs series, a morally shaded study of self-delusion and romantic folly. After being burned one too many times by married lovers, art-history student Sabine (Béatrice Romand) resolves to land a husband of her own. The problem: she sets her sights on successful lawyer Edmond (André Dussollier), who seems none too interested in her increasingly desperate advances.
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Full Moon in Paris
Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1984 • France
Starring Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice LuchiniIn Eric Rohmer’s wry, gracefully constructed fourth entry in his cycle of Comedies and Proverbs, a young woman learns the hard way that “he who has two women loses his soul; he who has two houses loses ...
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1951 • France
Walter and Charlotte are a young couple who engage in an awkward conversation before Charlotte is set to take a train out of town.
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Véronique and Her Dunce
Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1958 • France
In this short film from director Eric Rohmer, Véronique tutors a perplexing young boy.
