France
1972
93 minutes
Color
1.33:1
French
348
Though happily married to his adoring wife Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day. His Chloé and fantasies remain harmless until Chloe (played by the mesmerizing Zouzou), an audacious, unencumbered old flame, shows up at his office, embodying the first genuine threat to Frédéric’s marriage. The luminous final chapter to Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” is a tender, sobering, and wholly adult affair that leads to perhaps the most overwhelmingly emotional moment in the entire series.
| Frédéric | Bernard Verley |
| Chloé | Zouzou |
| Hélène | Françoise Verley |
| Gérard | Daniel Ceccaldi |
| Fabienne | Malvina Penne |
| Martine | Babette Ferrier |
| 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 |
| Mixed by | Jacques Carrere |
| Music | Arié Dzieriatka |
| Editing | Cécile Decugis and Martine Kalfon |
| Set decoration | Nicole Rachline |
Tributes to Eric Rohmer have been springing up all over following his death last week at age eighty-nine. Among our favorites thus far is the one by Geoffrey O’Brien, who has written stirringly and lyrically about the French auteur on the http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/342897521/the . . .
The appearance of Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales in the midst of the Sixties’ sexual revolution brought unexpected sobriety to the european sexual drama and the comedy of erotic manners. Their stateside popularity successfully challenged the sauciness and candor audiences were accustomed to enjoying . . .
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