Conte d'automne (1998)

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   ucuruju

   It's always curious to me the amount of extreme behavior Rohmer's characters exhibit in his films. He has a reputation for stillness and middle-class pleasantries— but almost always his protagonists have extravagant (to say the least) believes and behavior— especially the young, naive ones, who seem obsessed with fate, coincidences, true love, moral fortitude; subjective values that dictate their actions to an insane degree. This film in particular has some pretty psychotic behavior in it— everyone is lying and manipulating each other ostensibly in the name of love and friendship— but it's still sweet, profound, melancholic and full of love. He may have never filmed violence or gunplay, but Rohmer is hardcore. 2 years 4 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Rohmer's last "Tale from the Four Seasons", An Autumn Tale (Conte d'automne) takes its cues from the first three - Spring's unwooable woman, Summer's bounty of love interests, and Winter's touch of Shakespearean comedy - presenting us with a romantic harvest that's driven by psychology rather than the tropes it seems to set up with its farcical premise. Béatrice Romand is Magali, a winemaker who two friends are independently try to match with a man with convoluted ploys. Her younger friend would have her be with her own, older ex-lover, to safely keep both in her life. The other impersonates her to lure a man through the classifieds, a fantasy that makes her true feelings ambiguous even through to the last shot. These engineered meet-cutes really go against Magali's mindset, which prefers the organic to the artificial, and disorder to imposed structure. The resolutions work because they are true to each character, which makes Autumn Rohmer's most naturalistic despite the cinematic set-up. A close second to A Summer's Tale in terms of enjoyment for me. 8 months ago

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