Pauline at the Beach
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Movie Reviews of Pauline at the Beach
Movie Review: Rohmer Gives Us a Delictable Morsel
Summary: 5 Stars
Pauline at the Beach was part of Eric Rohmer's Comedies et Proverbes series. Each film explores relationships between men and women. This is a piece of fluff. But that is not a negative. This piece of fluff is truly delicious and a tasty morsel to be relished.
Pauline is a school girl who is finishing her summer holiday with her cousin Marion at a family seaside cottage. Marion is a fashion designer whose marriage has failed.
On their first day on the beach they meet Pierre, an old flame of Marion's and Henri a casual acquaintance of Pierre. Henri is also divorced and has a young daughter Marie.
Pierre invites all to dinner at his place. This scene is very important as each describes love and this is how the rest of the film is set in motion. Marion equates fidelity with true love. Pierre feels that true love must be eternal. Pauline feels that you must know the other person before you can fall in love. Henri believes that love is only in the present.
They all go dancing and Pierre lets Marion know that he is still in love with her but she lets him know that she loves him as a friend. At the end of the evening, Marion invites Henri back to her place. The next day Pierre is teaching Marion to windsurf and Pauline meets a boy her own age, Sylvan.
It doesn't take long for Henri to show his true colors when Marion and Pauline are away on a day trip, he finds another woman to play with him. He is almost caught by Marion but tells her that Sylvan and the woman were together. This leads to mass misunderstandings and everyone unhappy, well except Henri. In the end, Pauline finds out the truth but decides to let the lying dogs lay.
There is no real depth to the story but there is depth to direction and a marvelous cast.
DVD EXTRAS: None
Movie Review: Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'Pauline à la plage.'
Summary: 5 Stars
Éric 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 à 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 (Féodor 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
Movie Review: Love in a number of dimensions
Summary: 5 Stars
The third in Eric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series, this movie depicts the hypocrisies of adult relationships as they occur in contrast to the open honesty of young (teenage) love. Pauline (Amanda Langlet) is a 15 year old spending the summer at the beach with her older cousin Marion (Arielle Dombasle), a self-possessed and self-disillusioned woman.
Marion gives a haughty lecture at the beginning of the movie about her ideas of love, and then goes about making a sham of every one of them as she becomes involved with three men. One watches this woman and can't wait for her to get her come-uppance, which finally occurs - but it has no effect and she remains self-deluded. Meanwhile, Pauline meets a boy and has her own experiences and tends to view Marion's life from a distance. As usual Rohmer is right on target and insightfully funny. The photography of the coast of Normandy is beautiful.
Movie Review: A very intelligent movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie where there is no action, rather we are the fly on the wall and we listen in to conversations. The main character in the movie is Pauline, a teenager, vacationing at the beach with her older cousin. The older cousin is married, but not happily married. During their vacation, they meet some men, have conversations about life, and love. We see relationships develop, others fall apart, some tell the truth, and others lie. What this film illustrates, in such a subtle way, is the people who are honest are the ones who are the most happy. Those who lie to others, or to themselves, seem stuck in a melancholic exsistance. By the end of the movie, it turns out the teenage girl is the one who is the wisest of them all.The DVD has good picture quality, as good as from any movie made in the 1980's I have seen. You can turn the subtitles on or off, unlike some DVDs that burn the subtitles into the picture.
Movie Review: I loved this movie...
Summary: 5 Stars
Rare is a movie where you can get into the head of a character who acts like a real person. I would love to find more movies like this. This movie is about a teenager and her adult cousin who vacation at the beach, and about the people they meet and relationships they form. And for those who did enjoy this movie, check out "A Summer's Tale". You will be able to see Pauline (the teenager in this movie) 13 years older. Rohmer is a fantastic director who looks at people, and lets them display their humanity. I highly reccomend this movie for people of any age who are interested in the interpersonal dynamics between people. I also reccomend this movie because it stands up to repeated veiwings. With each additional viewing, more can be discovered about the characters.