Directed by:
Eric RohmerScreenplay:
Eric RohmerCinematography:
Néstor AlmendrosComposer:
Arié DzierlatkaCast:
Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi, Françoise Fabian, Béatrice Romand, Marie-Christine Barrault, Irène Skobline (more)VOD (3)
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Though happily married to the adoring Hélène and expecting a second child with her, the thoroughly bourgeois executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the attractive Paris women he sees every day. His flirtations and fantasies remain harmless until the appearance at his office of Chloé, an audacious, unencumbered old flame played by the mesmerizing Zouzou. Love in the Afternoon, the luminous final chapter in Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales, is a tender, sobering, and wholly adult affair that leads to perhaps the most overwhelmingly emotional moment in the entire series. (Criterion)
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Eric Rohmer is from the French wave of distinctive, self-sufficient, and capable filmmakers whose films simply don't do it for me. But what I like about Chloe in the Afternoon is that it has something to say and communicates it in a relatively accessible way. It's simply a film about the fact that even if a person is happy in life, he can still do something that can - but may not - easily ruin it.
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