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The Bakery Girl of Monceau

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Audience Score
69
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NR 23 minDrama, RomanceEric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales PosterPart of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales
Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
StarringBarbet SchroederClaudine SoubrierMichèle Girardon
DirectorÉric Rohmer
WriterÉric Rohmer

Movie Details

Original Language:French
Production Companies:Studios Africa, Les Films du Losange
Movie Tags:
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Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales

The multifaceted, deeply personal work of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinéma, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the 1960s, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. This near genre unto itself was established with the audacious and wildly influential series Six Moral Tales. A succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them, Six Moral Tales unleashed on the film world a new voice, one that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating.