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Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...
Pauline at the Beach
1983 ‘Pauline à la plage’ Directed by Éric Rohmer
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Pauline en la playa, 해변의 폴린느, Pauline am Strand, Полина на пляже, Paulina na Praia, Paulina na plaży, Paulina en la playa, 海辺のポーリーヌ, Pauline alla spiaggia, Pauline na Praia, Η Πωλίν στην Πλαζ
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Eric Rohmer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Horny Tales of Summer Romance
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the greatest. and yet, A TALE OF SUMMER is somehow even *more* the greatest. imagine that. i can't cycle through Rohmer fast enough, if only so I can start again and better suss out this film's place in his world.
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It would be nice to have a beach-house in which to breezily stumble through erotic entanglements and learn life lessons.
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I'm a Rohmer girl, in a Rohmer world
Life in plastic, it's fantastic
You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
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Ignorance of youth is no protection against the idiocy of adults in Éric Rohmer’s “Pauline at the Beach.”
“Pauline” is third entry in Rohmer’s second ‘series’ of films, “Comedies and Proverbs,” which each place women at the axle of a series of relationships. It’s a reversal of gender roles from Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales,” which typically presented a man deliberating over a choice of two romantic pursuits.
If the theme of “Morals” was the ideals that men fabricate in their own minds to justify ‘proper’ love, then “Comedies” shows the outward effects of these mental manipulations. That is; their effects on women.
Rohmer, the most Catholic of the Nouvelle Vague auteurs, has no illusion of ideal sexual love. For him,…
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These characters have such strong beliefs about love on a philosophical level but as soon as their beliefs get in the way of something (or someone) they want, they completely abandon everything they believe in. Just like people do in real life.
An essential summer film.
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Pauline at the Beach is a trivial film, but utterly charming. Mostly it is just talks of love, all between a small group of characters. At first it is a film of kisses and dances. Then love and sex. Finally it becomes a film of deceit and confusion, bringing conflict at last. Although Pauline at the Beach is just about a few characters working out their relationships during a small holiday, it is oddly engaging. This is a film just about watching people make mistakes, especially as in the end the film find villains in its scumbag men. Pauline at the Beach may merely be a collection of amorous escapades, but it presents love as insanity and creates something moving despite the slight presentation.
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Rohmer's voice isn't as particularly well-known amidst the best French New Wave filmmakers along the likes of Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut, which is quite a shame because there's no doubt that he's one of the most thoughtful filmmakers to have arisen from the movement. The third film in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series following The Aviator's Wife and A Good Marriage, this is the most I've found myself entertained watching any of Rohmer's films. Not to say his work was any less enthralling but it has come to stick in my head within time because I've almost in some sense found a common comfort prominent within how he weaves conversations between characters together. But add it to the delivery…
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Adult games. One of Rohmer's warmest takes on self-delusions. The setup is reimagining the old Rohmerian favorite of distance between feeling and action through a sex farce, but he manages to mine so much of all the fictions the characters play, the role playing that still constant produce actual damage. Adults become fools by the eyes of teenager, the coming of maturity just the acknowledging of more pain and not some desired process. The next to last scene with Henri and Pauline managing to communicate because for once there's understanding that she is neither a child, bult also not coming at it from the same perspective of the adults involved in their love affairs is one of the finest on…
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