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Love in the Afternoon

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NR 1 hr 37 minDrama, RomanceEric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales PosterPart of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
StarringBernard VerleyZouzouFrançoise Verley
DirectorÉric Rohmer

Movie Details

Original Language:French
Production Companies:Les Films du Losange
Movie Tags:
infidelitymarriage crisiswomanizerman between two women

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.