1982, Eric Rohmer
Rohmer sets up his scenes here in very simple back-and-forths. Single people, or groups, are presented as units which knock back against other units. This simple putting together of people can achieve some comic juxtapositions.
This is perhaps Rohmer’s funniest film. Indeed, it is in a sense a farce. The mind-boggling lies and confusions that infect everyone and everything play out against people who are on the surface quite pleasant. We come to know them better and understand motivations, faults, and what remains hidden; each is sympathetic, keeping their initial attraction, but always with complications. The bad aren’t bad and the good aren’t good; just compulsively confusing, drifting around each other.
This is another extremely entertaining, thoughtful picture from Rohmer.
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