possibly the prettiest film in the Comedies and Proverbs cycle, which is saying something. the color coded costumes, the cinematography, the bright modern city Rohmer builds his characters inside it is immediately arresting and intoxicating in a way that makes you want to simply exist in the film rather than watch it. Rohmer has always been exceptional at creating atmosphere but here it feels especially deliberate.
what I noticed about the Comedies and Proverbs series is how much I like the central characters. every single one so far. there is something about the way Rohmer writes young women navigating desire and uncertainty and the social weight of their own feelings that produces characters you can immediately resonate with, even when their situations are particular and their world is clearly one of privilege. the performances here are naturalistic and nuanced across the entire cast in a way that makes the entanglements feel genuinely real rather than contrived.
It is, like most Rohmer, a film of convoluted love and long conversations about feelings. young people sifting through relationships, entangling themselves in differing desires, making a mess of things and finding their way to something resembling happiness anyway. that has always been the charm and this is one of his better examples of it.
possibly the prettiest film in the Comedies and Proverbs cycle, which is saying something. the color coded costumes, the cinematography, the bright modern city Rohmer builds his characters inside it is immediately arresting and intoxicating in a way that makes you want to simply exist in the film rather than watch it. Rohmer has always been exceptional at creating atmosphere but here it feels especially deliberate.
what I noticed about the Comedies and Proverbs series is how much I like the central characters. every single one so far. there is something about the way Rohmer writes young women navigating desire and uncertainty and the social weight of their own feelings that produces characters you can immediately resonate with, even when their situations are particular and their world is clearly one of privilege. the performances here are naturalistic and nuanced across the entire cast in a way that makes the entanglements feel genuinely real rather than contrived.
It is, like most Rohmer, a film of convoluted love and long conversations about feelings. young people sifting through relationships, entangling themselves in differing desires, making a mess of things and finding their way to something resembling happiness anyway. that has always been the charm and this is one of his better examples of it.
