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Boyfriends and Girlfriends

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The lives of various young French people intersect in a recently constructed suburb near Paris. Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet), an uptight office worker, falls for the handsome Alexandre (Francois-Eric Gendron), whom she meets through her vibrant new friend, Lea (Sophie Renoir). Unfortunately for Blanche, Alexandre is dating the artistic Adrienne (Anne-Laure Meury), while Lea is seeing Fabien (Eric Viellard). Before long, though, these relationships shift, leading to new romantic pairings.

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Vincent Canby New York Times 08/30/2004
4/5
Mr. Rohmer, the most cerebral, most morally committed of French directors, is also the one who seems most aware of the particular influences of geography and meteorology on people. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 01/01/2000
A particular bonus here is the depiction of contemporary life in a kind of sterile suburban high-rise community that's rarely seen in the French cinema but that seems very typical of recent French life. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 01/01/2000
3/4
Rohmer knows exactly what he is doing here. He has no great purpose, but an interesting small one: He wants to observe the everyday behavior of a new class of French person, the young professionals. Go to Full Review
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid 02/20/2024
3/4
It's an intelligent film about shallow people, filled with the director's usual observant touches. Go to Full Review
Terry Francis Southern Voice (Atlanta) 05/08/2023
Boyfriends and Girlfriends is essentially a cheerful meditation on how we summon up the nerve to act out and justify to ourselves our own instincts about how we should live our lives. Go to Full Review
Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) 06/15/2022
An exquisite farce…with a quartet of lovers to barter…Whoever gets to see them will not forget them. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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08/18/2015 #6 in Rohmer's comedies & proverbs series See more 01/26/2014 Rohmer presenta la naturaleza humana como nadie See more 09/14/2012 Speelt zich af te midden la ville nouvelle de Cergy-Pontoise, en alle krankzinnigheid die daarbij hoort. See more 07/29/2012 how many of us have come across characters like this in real life.....excellent See more 02/29/2012 This is much more stilted than many of Rohmer's films, with the actors feeling very staged and formal. This doesn't feel like a commentary on the shallow aspects of the character's lives either--it just seems like wooden acting. That said, it still engages due in large part to Chaulet's presence. See more 01/28/2012 Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Maybe it's that the translation doesn't do the dialogue justice, but I couldn't muster any interest in the stilted, self-centered analytical musings of any of the characters. Add to this a decision to tell the story in an uncinematic fashion-- static camera, no action, flat colors (at least in my VHS version), and drab settings-- and you get one colossal bore. Oddly, I recognize that this isn't really that far removed from a film by Whit Stillman, whom I love, and whose films are often given the same criticism. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The lives of various young French people intersect in a recently constructed suburb near Paris. Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet), an uptight office worker, falls for the handsome Alexandre (Francois-Eric Gendron), whom she meets through her vibrant new friend, Lea (Sophie Renoir). Unfortunately for Blanche, Alexandre is dating the artistic Adrienne (Anne-Laure Meury), while Lea is seeing Fabien (Eric Viellard). Before long, though, these relationships shift, leading to new romantic pairings.
Director
Éric Rohmer
Producer
Margaret Ménégoz
Distributor
Orion Pictures
Production Co
Les Films du Losange, Compagnie Éric Rohmer
Rating
PG
Genre
Romance, Comedy
Original Language
French (France)
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 14, 1987, Original
Box Office (Gross USA)
$21.9K
Runtime
1h 43m
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