An Eric Rohmer "moral tale" set in the Clermont-Ferrand winter, where citizens apparently go around turning over Pascal's Pensées in their minds, and seize upon chance encounters with old acquaintances and new to discharge their sober thoughts. Because of that, the movie attains a high-toned, bookish quality suggestive of a bygone era -- and (needless to add) of another medium altogether. There is considerable facility of manner and self-expression; and the mood, in this world of mid-range grays, soothes like a pleasant reading voice. Rohmer, for his part, comes up with no very ingenious ideas of how to shoot the extensive, stationary discourses, and consequently injects a bit of stiffness. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian. (1969) — Duncan Shepherd
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