Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Boyfriends and Girlfriends

1987 · 103 min · FR · 7.2 (86 votes)
Dir. Éric Rohmer · Starring Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, François-Eric Gendron, Éric Viellard, Anne-Laure Meury · Music Jean-Louis Valéro

The friends of my friends are my friends too

DramaComedyRomance

Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien.

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A gentle, observational film about the tender anxieties and tentative connections of young adulthood. It captures the quiet awkwardness of budding romance and the bittersweet ache of unspoken feelings with a tender, understated grace.

wistfulawkwardcharmingmelancholicsteadyslice-of-lifeindie dramacharacter-drivenfriendshipromanceself-discoveryyouth
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