The inauguration of Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series, and the sense of a New Beginning is perhaps underscored by the scraping-off of surface polish and the return to early-New-Wave roughness. (The movie was shot in 16mm and blown up to 35.) The situations border on, or cross over into, farce, but the treatment pulls them back into something tamer, brainier, wordier, as if gentility (or timidity) prevented Rohmer from following his impulses through. Once again he looks to a precocious teenage girl to come to his aid, and once again the teenage girl (Anne-Laure Meury) comes through. With Philippe Marlaud, Marie Riviere, and Mathieu Carriere. (1981) — Duncan Shepherd
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