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Join us at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, for a screening of Eric Rohmer’s “A Tale of Winter,” which is among the most spiritual and emotional films of Rohmer’s storied career.
Five years after losing touch with Charles (Frédéric van den Driessche), the love of her life and the father of her young daughter, Félicie (Charlotte Véry) attempts to choose between librarian Loïc (Hervé Furic), who lives in the Parisian suburbs, or hairdresser Maxence (Michel Voletti), who has recently moved to Nevers. In the midst of indecision Félicie holds to an undying faith that a miracle will reunite her with Charles, a faith that Rohmer examines in all of its religious dimensions and philosophical ramifications.
“Eric Rohmer is the romantic philosopher of the French New Wave, the director whose characters make love with words as well as flesh. They are open to sudden flashes of passion, they become infatuated at first sight, but then they descend into doubt and analysis, talking intensely about what it all means. Because they’re invariably charming, and because coincidence and serendipity play such a large role in his stories, this is more cheerful than it sounds. As he grows older Rohmer’s heart grows younger, and at 81 he is more in tune with love than the prematurely cynical authors of Hollywood teen romances.
“What pervades Rohmer’s work is a faith in love–or, if not love, then in the right people finding each other for the right reasons. There is sadness in his work but not gloom. His characters are too smart to be surprised by disappointments, and too interested in life to indulge in depression. His films succeed not because large truths are discovered, but because small truths will do. To attend his films is to be for a time in the company of people we would like to know, and then to realize that in various ways they are ourselves.” — Roger Ebert
Tickets are $6 and available at link above. Students use code STUDENT at checkout for free admission (must show Cane card at the door).
