Pauline at the Beach
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, F?odor Atkine, Pascal Greggory, Simon de La BrosseDirector: Eric Rohmer
Brand: ROHMER,ERIC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Pauline at the Beach
Movie Review: Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'Pauline ? la plage.'
Summary: 5 Stars
?ric Rohmer (1920) first challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, "Six Moral Tales," which he completed in 1972 before commencing another six-film cycle, "Comedies and Proverbs," each based on a different proverb.
Based on the proverb, "he who talks too much will hurt himself," Pauline At The Beach (Pauline ? la plage) (1983) is the third in Rohmer's insightful "Comedies & Proverbs" film series. Set in Normandy, it tells the seaside-romance story of two two cousins, soon-to-be-divorced Marion (Arielle Dombasle) and 15-year-old Pauline (Amanda Langlet). Marion ignores the advances of her surfer-ex, Pierre (Pascal Greggory), and instead quickly falls for Henri (F?odor Atkine), who admits he is only interested in her "perfect" body. Henri derails Pauline's romance with a young man, Sylvain (Simon de La Brosse) with his deceipt. Pauline learns some important lessons about love at the beach, while her more-experienced cousin Marion ends the summer none the wiser. Rich in relationship dialogue, like many of Rohmer's films, Pauline at the Beach demonstrates how the course of love never did run smooth. Hopefully Criterion will remaster Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series, and then offer it as a boxed collection similar its "Six Moral Tales" boxed set.
G. Merritt
Summary of Pauline at the Beach
Come take a leisurely, relaxing trip to the sun-soaked, sandy beaches of Brittany in this bewitchingly funny yet profoundly wise comedy (Vogue) from acclaimed French writer/director Eric Rohmer. Winner* for Best Direction at the Berlin Film Festival, Pauline at the Beach is delightful a film of summer sunlight, bare skin and escalating amorous misunderstandings (Newsweek). Young and beautiful Pauline is spending the end of the summer with her older and sexuallyalluring cousin Marion on the stunning Atlantic coast of France. And it isn't long before three eligible men attempt to entice them both into romance. But head games, deceit and lies soon interfere with the amorous mood, threatening to spoil this idyllic playground and Pauline's innocent views of love. *1983In the lighthearted third film in Eric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series, 15-year-old Pauline (Amanda Langlet) gets an eye-opening lesson in the games grown-ups play on a two-week summer vacation with her recently divorced and ready-for-fun older cousin Marion (Arielle Dombasle, every inch the vivacious blonde goddess). Smitten young Pascal Greggory turns aggressive with jealousy when the smooth, seductive, happily shallow writer F?odor Atkine wins the fancy of the "perfect" Marion while continuing to fool around on the side. The tangled affairs, mistaken identities, and white lies are the stuff of sex farce, but Rohmer is more interested in the folly of love and the impulsive, illogical workings of human nature. He deftly crafts a gentle and sexy little human comedy that ends with Pauline learning perhaps the right lessons after all. --Sean Axmaker
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