A Tale of Winter

While the lead character is more than a bit frustrating it's still clear why she's charming to the men in her life making this a very interesting look at complicated relationships. There are some great conversations and some really strong moments which make the film stand out despite being stretched a little thin.

Another superb Rohmer.

Very Nice Movie, That The Female Leads First Sentence To The Father Of Her Daughter On The Reunion Is "You Are In France!?" In A Dry Way Like It Is Nothing Special Is Perfect.

It's typical Rohmer, a very chatty relationship drama, with a lot of little intellectual conversations including the mandatory mention of Pascal, but I do like this better than some of his early films. Here, Rohmer fights back his urge to use his characters as the mere mouthpieces of ideas, and this leaves a little more room for subtext and psychology. The heroine is loathesome, but it's hard not to sympathize with her at the end, an ending less clear-cut than it appears.

Not his best work, but still very engaging with the usual Rohmer intelligence, warmth, and charm.

I love Rohmer, but this was a bit disappointing. Still very good, but not as insightful as much of his other work (still even if less insightful than most Rohmer films it's still more insightful than most films). The ending is strange: taken literally I could find it bleh, but I can't help but see it more as an expression of the main character's hope, pain and desperation rather than anything that actually happens. Pascal's Wager applied to relationships was handled better in My Night at Maud's.

the ending. D'awwwww. Made me so happy

Impressive!

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"Let's not dwell on him," she says, and then spends some 90 minutes of our time doing just that. It's a horribly messy romance with a bizarre logic underneath it. Even though Rohmer's movies are a little too talky for me, he always manages to make the sense of place a character in its own right.

watched: 2017, 2023

The tragedy of loss may send us into a spiral of rationality and comfort seeking, but ultimately the love we seek and know that exists between two individuals may triumph any doubts and is almost always going to make itself appear when least expected. Art as grand as Shakespeare may in fact be the binding factor to restore faith in reality, as we finally see the true emotions that have been suppressed throughout the protagonist's years.

So good. Felicie's insufferable for much of the film's runtime, but that is precisely the point. Were she not flip flopping from man to man, her eventual transformation would be quite small indeed.

The opposite of Vertigo. The ending could be the rare really happy ending for Rohmer, but that's left open for us to decide. As the man himself declared, "If I make films, it is so, in a certain way, that they ask a question, but not give an answer"

It should've been a short film. Reminds me of Before Sunset, Broken English and August Rush.