A Tale of Springtime

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A Tale of Springtime

PG

1989

1h 52m

Drama

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Elissa Suh

Moviepudding

The dynamics of cohabitation and coupling turn into a philosophical meditation, characteristically Rohmerian...

Aug 21, 2023

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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

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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

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As Profound as it is Enjoyable...

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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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

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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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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

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vu le mercredi 18 aoÃ»t 2010 de 14h45 Ã 16h30 sur la chaÃ®ne de tÃ©lÃ© publique franco-allemande Arte.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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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.

Director: Éric Rohmer
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 52m

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