Synopsis
“Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura’s long-legged, blonde stepsister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jerôme’s moral crisis and creates both one of French cinema’s most enduring moments and what has become the iconic image of Rohmer’s Moral Tales.
Cast
| Jerôme | Jean-Claude Brialy |
| Aurora | Aurora Cornu |
| Laura | Béatrice Romand |
| Claire | Laurence de Monaghan |
| Madame Walter | Michèle Montel |
| Gilles | Gérard Falconetti |
| Vincent | Fabrice Luchini |
Credits
| Director | Eric Rohmer |
| Producer | Barbet Schroeder and Pierre Cottrell |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros, Jean-Claude Rivière and Philippe Rousselot |
| Sound | Jean-Pierre Ruh and Michel Laurent |
| Editing | Cécile Decugis and Martine Kalfon |
| Associate producer | Alfred de Graaff |
| Continuity | Michel Fleury |
| Gaffer | Jean-Claude Gasché |
| Still photography | Bernard Prim |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
- Rohmer’s short film The Curve (1999)
- An excerpt from the French television program Le journal du cinéma, featuring interviews with Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, and Laurence de Monahagan
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
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