Directed by:
Eric RohmerScreenplay:
Eric RohmerCinematography:
Luc PagèsComposer:
Sébastien ErmsCast:
Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti, Hervé Furic, Rosette, Haydée Caillot, Jean-Claude Biette, Marie Rivière, Roger Dumas (more)Plots(1)
Eric Rohmer was unsurpassed at creating intelligent romantic comedies and intelligent female characters. A Tale of Winter, one of his most genial and audacious films, is a superb example of both facets. With Rohmer's characteristic delight in surprise and paradox, winter, not spring, is seen as the season of rebirth and renewal, and its tale begins on a sunny beach. A young couple, Félicie and Charles, meet while on holiday and fall deeply in love. In a fatal slip, she gives him the wrong address, and, as a result, he disappears from her life. Five years later, at Christmas time, Félicie is a hairdresser in the Paris suburbs with a daughter (Charles') and two lovers: the successful Maxence and the intellectual Loïc. She loves them both, but, as she says, "There's love and love," and the love that counts is the one she still holds for the long lost Charles. Félicie is one of the most fascinating in Rohmer's distinguished line of heroines: impulsive, independent, thoughtlessly frank, disarmingly sincere, at once exasperating and enchanting. The plot centers on Félicie's shifting allegiances to the three men in her life, with an abortive move to another city, a strange experience in the cathedral of Nevers, and a performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale among the stations on a roundabout journey that finally brings her face to face with the most basic issues of destiny and faith. (Big World Pictures)
(more)Cast
Charlotte Véry
Best movies:
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Série noire (1984) (series)
A Tale of Winter (1992)
Frédéric van den Driessche
France
Michel Voletti
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Savage Nights (1992)
Présumé dangereux (1990)
Hervé Furic
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1982)
A Tale of Winter (1992)
Rosette
Best movies:
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
The Green Ray (1986)
Haydée Caillot
Best movies:
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
A Tale of Winter (1992)
Jean-Claude Biette
France
Best movies:
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
India Song (1975)
Marie Rivière
France
Best movies:
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
The Green Ray (1986)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Roger Dumas
France
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
Dear Inspector (1978)
Danièle Lebrun
France
Best movies:
Mother (1991)
Camille Claudel (1988)
It Only Happens to Others (1971)
Diane Lepvrier
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Bluebeard (1963)
Benjamin (1968)