Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

1972 · 97 min · FR · 7.3 (158 votes)
Dir. Éric Rohmer · Starring Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi, Malvina Penne, Elisabeth Ferrier · Music Arié Dzierlatka
DramaRomanceComedy

The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

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A cool, intellectual Parisian romance. It feels like eavesdropping on sophisticated conversations about desire and duty, wrapped in a hazy, sun-drenched afternoon. Witty, yet tinged with a quiet melancholy.

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