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Package fee (includes all four films): $40


This special discounted package features access to all four films in the streaming series Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons. Shot on location in various regions of France in the 1990s, when Rohmer was at the height of his powers, the Tales of the Four Seasons probe the psychological and philosophical mysteries of love—elusive, imagined, or manifest.

Paris is prosaic in winter; one has to provide one’s own transcendent metaphors. For Félicie (Charlotte Véry), the sidewalks, buses, and Métro are only potential meeting places for her lost love Charles, to whom she gave a wrong address in a ditzy slip years ago, then had his child. Now she vacillates, seemingly impetuously, between two perfectly opposite suitors—a beauty shop owner and a Catholic intellectual. Pascal, Plato, and Victor Hugo (author and ubiquitous street name) incongruously appear to guide this decidedly unintellectual heroine whose bedrock spirituality has only to do with hope, the absurdity of which is its own justification. Bresson, Hitchcock, and Shakespeare appear to have guided the filmmaker. As in White Nights, Vertigo, and The Winter’s Tale, “People who were thought dead are resurrected.” 


—Judy Bloch

  • Year
    1992
  • Runtime
    114 minutes
  • Language
    French
  • Country
    France
  • Director
    Éric Rohmer
  • Screenwriter
    Éric Rohmer
  • Cast
    Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Hervé Furic, Michael Voletti
  • Cinematographer
    Luc Pagès, Maurice Giraud