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A Tale of Springtime

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Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre), a high school philosophy instructor, meets Natacha (Florence Darel) at a party. They become friends, and soon Jeanne, who shares an apartment in Paris with her messy boyfriend, is staying at Natacha's while her father (Hugues Quester), a middling French bureaucrat, is out of town. Very quickly, Jeanne realizes Natacha has something to hide -- and when her father comes home and discovers her in his flat, unacknowledged desires come to the forefront.
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David Mermelstein Wall Street Journal Rohmer’s talky films are filled with all manner of assertions about the most basic of human relationships—to say nothing of frequent flights into more cerebral topics. But the abundant dialogue is also often pointedly funny... Feb 17, 2024 Full Review Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Rohmer’s characters, by contrast, seem finished even before the stories start; the only game is to discover which tidbits about them the filmmaker has yet to reveal... Rated: 2/4 May 26, 2022 Full Review Vincent Canby New York Times Mr. Rohmer's films look like no one else's. They are direct and clean, the movie equivalent to prose that dispenses with adjectives and adverbs. Rated: 4/5 Aug 30, 2004 Full Review David Harris Spectrum Culture A Tale of Springtime serves as an amuse-bouche for the subsequent films, spring serving as the beginning, the start to something. May 14, 2024 Full Review Elissa Suh Moviepudding The dynamics of cohabitation and coupling turn into a philosophical meditation, characteristically Rohmerian... Aug 21, 2023 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills This cinema may be "smaller than life," but they also tend to expose the grand gestures and melodramatic bombast of so much standard film storytelling as clumsy artifice. May 7, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Abe A I finished this movie on May 18 2024. I'll write a more detailed review after I rewatch it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/20/24 Full Review william k Charming tale of friendship, attraction and relationships in the director's typical style of unagitated observation. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member As Profound as it is Enjoyable... Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member This is how gentle people behave. Natasha is young and hurt by her parents' divorce. She grows competitive with her father's new girlfriend, Eve, who is only a few years only than she. Eve gets competitive back. There is a small fight, when ends when everyone volunteers to leave, as gentle people should. Natasha's father tried to seduce her new friend, but the seduction is stopped without rancor. No one changes. They find friends, almost lose them, but re-establish them. The film is as restful as a gentle friend. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member (***): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Rohmer = talk, usually thoughtful talk; in this case very thoughtful talk as the protagonist teaches philosophy and that occasionally becomes the topic of conversation. Love is also discussed. And life. And desires. People manipulate. People are manipulated. People realize they have been manipulated and respond with varying degrees of annoyance or anger. All much more interesting and engaging than it sounds. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre), a high school philosophy instructor, meets Natacha (Florence Darel) at a party. They become friends, and soon Jeanne, who shares an apartment in Paris with her messy boyfriend, is staying at Natacha's while her father (Hugues Quester), a middling French bureaucrat, is out of town. Very quickly, Jeanne realizes Natacha has something to hide -- and when her father comes home and discovers her in his flat, unacknowledged desires come to the forefront.
Director
Éric Rohmer
Rating
PG
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 52m
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