A Good Marriage

PG

1982

1h 37m

Comedy

Drama

List

85%

Tomatometer

13 Reviews

74%

Audience Score

250+ Ratings

Impetuous and restless art student Sabine (Béatrice Romand) is tired of her dead-end job and her married boyfriend, Simon (Féodor Atkine), so she drops both of them. Then, through her pal Clarisse (Arielle Dombasle), she meets Edmond (André Dussollier), an attorney 10 years her senior. Immediately, she decides marriage is just the change she needs, and that Edmond is the perfect candidate for a husband. And so begins her relentless pursuit of matrimony, much to Edmond's chagrin.

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Glenn Kenny

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Rohmer, like Jean Renoir, doesn’t see things in purely black-and-white terms, and the fun of his movies is in how he shows each of his characters from a number of different angles, shifting our sympathies subtly with nearly every shot.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 5, 2022

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Tom Milne

Sight & Sound

It was perhaps high time that one of the delightful women who have led Rohmer's heroes such a teasing dance was put in her place.

Mar 16, 2020

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Bruce McCabe

Boston Globe

Le Beau Mariage never really seems to get outside the groove that Rohmer sets it in. Even for Rohmer, a director with an indirect style and approach, the film is too oblique.

Apr 27, 2018

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

I find the film, considered the second in his 'Comedies and Proverbs', bland and disappointing when Rohmer repeatedly addresses issues related to whims, indecision and marriage. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 5/10

Jan 29, 2021

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Luis Fernando Galván

En Filme

We can laugh at Sabine's candor and naive attempts at social climbing, but her ultimate fate draws our sympathies. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Oct 22, 2020

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Diego Galán

El Pais (Spain)

The fantasies of the protagonist are transformed into subjective versions of what the audience contemplates from the outside. The contrast elicits laughter and even solidarity. [Full Review in Spanish]

Aug 26, 2019

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#2 in Rohmer's comedies & proverbs

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

A bloody nightmare of a woman wants to marry the first bachelor she comes across and it all ends in misery.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Audience Member

More interesting and with more action than some of the other entries in the "Comedies et Proverbes" series (at least that I've seen). Can't say I particularly liked it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Headstrong, naive woman decides to get married, then meets a man she wants to pursue in this comfortably talky French drama. Slight but at times quite soulful.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

This was perfectly satisfactory stuff. I have never seen a Rohmer film before and thought this was averagely interesting. I particularly liked the electropop on the soundtrack which I certainly didn't suspect, and also admired the nicely reflective and optimistic ending.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

Can Rohmer do no wrong?? Seemingly banal but so painfully, uncomfortably compelling and true. And Beatrice is always such a charm to watch.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Éric Rohmer

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Béatrice Romand

Sabine

André Dussollier

Edmond

Féodor Atkine

Simon

Arielle Dombasle

Clarisse

Huguette Faget

Maryse

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Synopsis

Impetuous and restless art student Sabine (Béatrice Romand) is tired of her dead-end job and her married boyfriend, Simon (Féodor Atkine), so she drops both of them. Then, through her pal Clarisse (Arielle Dombasle), she meets Edmond (André Dussollier), an attorney 10 years her senior. Immediately, she decides marriage is just the change she needs, and that Edmond is the perfect candidate for a husband. And so begins her relentless pursuit of matrimony, much to Edmond's chagrin.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Producer: Margaret Ménégoz
Production Co: Les Films du Losange, Compagnie Éric Rohmer, Les Films du Carrosse
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Mono