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.
A French Ozu, Rohmer makes the delicate distinction between late summer and early autumn in the light, the colors, the wind, and the mood of deep delight that permeates this film set in Provence. Magali is a vintner, and autumn is her season, when she can forget the loneliness of being a widow whose children are gone. Isabelle, owner of a bookshop, plans her daughter’s wedding but is far more interested in getting Magali hitched. Unbeknownst to her friend, she places a personal ad in her name—then conducts interviews over wine and lunch. Béatrice Romand, a teenager in Rohmer’s Claire’s Knee (1970), plays Magali, and Marie Rivière, the vagabond of Summer (1986), is Isabelle. Everyone’s grown up, in a film that is as magical and as uncompromising as anything Rohmer ever made.
—Judy Bloch
- Year1998
- Runtime112 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- DirectorÉric Rohmer
- ScreenwriterÉric Rohmer
- CastBéatrice Romand, Marie Rivière, Alain Libolt, Alexia Portal
- CinematographerDiane Baratier
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.
A French Ozu, Rohmer makes the delicate distinction between late summer and early autumn in the light, the colors, the wind, and the mood of deep delight that permeates this film set in Provence. Magali is a vintner, and autumn is her season, when she can forget the loneliness of being a widow whose children are gone. Isabelle, owner of a bookshop, plans her daughter’s wedding but is far more interested in getting Magali hitched. Unbeknownst to her friend, she places a personal ad in her name—then conducts interviews over wine and lunch. Béatrice Romand, a teenager in Rohmer’s Claire’s Knee (1970), plays Magali, and Marie Rivière, the vagabond of Summer (1986), is Isabelle. Everyone’s grown up, in a film that is as magical and as uncompromising as anything Rohmer ever made.
—Judy Bloch
- Year1998
- Runtime112 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryFrance
- DirectorÉric Rohmer
- ScreenwriterÉric Rohmer
- CastBéatrice Romand, Marie Rivière, Alain Libolt, Alexia Portal
- CinematographerDiane Baratier