Chloe in the Afternoon
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Bernard Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi, Fran?oise Verley, Malvina Penne, ZouzouDirector: Eric Rohmer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Chloe in the Afternoon
Movie Review: Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'L'Amour l'apr?s-midi.'
Summary: 4 Stars
?ric Rohmer (1920) challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, Six Moral Tales ("Contes moraux"). Inspired by F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, each "tale" follows the same basic story: a man is tempted a woman, but he ultimately resists the temptation.
Love in the Afternoon (L'Amour l'apr?s-midi; also known as Chloe in the Afternoon) (1972) tells the story of a young, successful businessman, Fr?d?ric (Bernard Verley). Although he is happily married to his adoring wife H?l?ne (Fran?oise Verley), an English professor, bourgeois Fr?d?ric nevertheless fantasizes about his premarital freedom and the excitement of chasing women. His thoughts are filled with the attractive women who pass him on the streets of Paris every day. When an old flame, Chlo? (played by the mesmerizing Zouzou), shows up in Fr?d?ric's office, the two begin spending afternoons together talking. (This film shows how conversation can be the best foreplay.) Fr?d?ric experiences a connection with Chlo? that threatens his marriage. Chlo? confesses that while she is not interested in marriage, she would like to have a child with Fr?d?ric, forcing him to choose between a wife that he loves and a woman he feels strangely passionate about. Before consummating his feelings for Chlo?, he retreats to his wife, leaving Chlo? in bed waiting for him--perhaps the most powerful emotional moment in Rohmer's entire series.
G. Merritt
Summary of Chloe in the Afternoon
A low-key, slightly creepy meditation on infidelity and adjustments to social expectations, Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) marks the culmination of director Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series. The film, which traces the trajectory of Frederic, a married businessman, through temptation and an altogether standard midlife crisis, feels remarkably ham-handed, and fails to offer anything more than platitudinous responses to complex problems. Zouzou proves fetching as the title character, a bohemian drifter bent on seducing, and arguably transforming, the comfortably bourgeois protagonist (the dull-looking Bernard Verley); the rest of the cast, given indistinct characters to interpret, rarely provides much excitement. Several scenes--particularly a revelatory encounter between Frederic and Chloe in the basement of a dress shop--do manage to catch fire, but Rohmer dodges the implications of his own creative instincts and undermines his own point by grafting on a pat conclusion that feels cheap and sudden. Lost in the slide toward obviousness is a genuinely intelligent script--one that manages to feel bright without ever resorting to cleverness--and foggy-surreal location shooting in some of the less fashionable areas of Paris. Best suited for repentant philanderers and hardcore Francophiles. --Miles BethanyArt House & International DVD Video
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