A Tale of Winter [Region 2]
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Ava Loraschi, Charlotte V?ry, Fr?d?ric van den Driessche, Herv? Furic, Michel VolettiDirector: Eric Rohmer
Cinematographer: Luc Pag?s
Writer: Eric Rohmer
Editor: Mary Stephen
Producer: Margaret M?n?goz
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: French (Unknown), PCM Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
Movie Reviews of A Tale of Winter [Region 2]
Movie Review: One of Rohmer's most aggravating films
Summary: 2 Stars
The good things first: this film is a beautifully restructured reconsideration of the Catholic themes of My Night at Maud's as telescoped through the storyline of a stubbornly headstrong young woman with strongly-held romantic ideals (obvious parallels to Beau Mariage). I love how Rohmer still uses settings and colours and modes of transport as extensions of character. Here, the settings are drab working-class homes and apartments, the colours are fittingly dreary browns and greys, hideous carpets and empty bookshelves, and public transport is the norm. So Rohmer was clearly paying attention to detail. All that aside: this is one of the master's most aggravating pictures because, instead of sustaining all of the protagonist's inner doubts to a fever pitch and leaving them sublimely unresolved, as he does in so many other great films, in Winter's Tale, Rohmer facilely suggests that prayer and faith will ultimately be repaid. It's as if Rohmer suddenly found religion, and all the subtle uncertainties are gone. While one reviewer here made an apt comparison to the conclusion of the earlier film Rayon Vert (aka Summer), the uplifting conclusion there was really just a personal epiphany, a common and effective literary device. Here, the conclusion is an improbable confluence of circumstances contrived to reward a most underserving faith, and the only thing in need of uplift was my hanging jaw.
Summary of A Tale of Winter [Region 2]
The second of Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons series is not the chilly story its title would imply. Felicie (Charlotte V?ry) is a single mother with two lovers, neither of whom she feels much passion for--and Felicie knows passion. In the opening scene she frolics with youthful abandon with Charles (Fr?d?ric van den Driessche), an American she falls head-over-heels for while on holiday. Through a careless mistake--she gives him the wrong address and doesn't have his--they never reconnect in spite of her best efforts, but his presence continues to permeate her life as she raises their child. The sunny warmth of carefree youth and the emotional ecstasy of the opening turn to the cool colors of winter as Felicie resigns herself to a life without her one true love. She tries to make the best of it by choosing one of her lovers but, in the best tradition of willful Rohmer women, she discovers she simply cannot settle for second best. Felicie is a delightfully contradictory character, lively under her somber front, headstrong and petulant, indecisive and flighty, dedicated to her search for true love. V?ry invests Felicie with a spark that enlivens her even at her most exasperating, a spark that Rohmer finally allows to light up in his most emotionally magical conclusion since Summer. --Sean AxmakerDrama DVD Video
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