Les Rendez-Vous de Paris

1995, Rohmer, three half-hour tales
Rohmer is changing his style slightly here, on a trend he has been moving towards; the camera is freerer, likely handheld, bumping along now. This leads to longer takes, and often a willingness to hold the gaze longer, even when the interlocurs are not centered. Also not the low angle in many scenes, emphasising the characters against the grey sky.
The episodic format again gives a sense of a whole world, on which we but scratch the surface. The central story is the most successful here, perhaps because it is the least like a story; the others have rather a wish to go somewhere, meaning that the actual acts of what is happening can get a bit lost in the wider moves.
The element of Rohmer that is narrow and rather one-paced comes out in his less good work, present a rather closed world. This is by no means a film one would indiscriminately describe as ‘bad’; but it is doubtless rather limited.