Other Titles • A Summer's Tale (1996) • Conte d'été
Synopses for A Summer's Tale (1996)
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The third of Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons romances follows the indecision of a young man who juggles three women during his final summer between school and work. Drifting along the beaches of Brittany while waiting for his commitment-shy girlfriend, Lena, to meet him, Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud of Diary of a Seducer) becomes fast friends with pretty waitress Margot (Amanda Langlet, the grown-up Pauline of Pauline at the Beach a decade earlier) and has a fling with Margot's aggressive and sexy friend Solene before Lena finally shows. By then, Gaspard has inadvertently committed himself to all three women. It's a lovely portrait of awkwardness and ambivalence set against the gorgeous land and seascape of Brittany, and populated by pretty young performers.
This, the most understated of Rohmer's sex farces, carries a bittersweet sting, but little of the emotional effervescence of his best films. While these characters are no less pretentious or vulnerable than his other lovers (who all seem to be emotionally at sea), Rohmer just skims the surface of their emotional revelation. His greatest achievement is the evocation of young adults caught between their teens and 20s, with little real experience but full of easily sidelined ideals. In the best Rohmer tradition, the circular conversations and solipsistic monologues are neither glib nor pretentious, merely the immature but sincere ramblings of vulnerable youth playing adult games. --Sean Axmaker
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A shy young man named Gaspard (Poupaud) takes a vacation in a small village of Normandy, France, to meet his girlfriend Lena. During an unsuccessful attempt to locate Lena, he meets Margot (Langlet) a pretty local servant girl. They become fast friends, and soon Gaspard finds himself physically attracted to Margot, but she has other plans for the lad and introduces him to a girl in town whom fancies him. In the midst of all this excitement, Gaspard attempts to remain true to his original lover, Lena, but is he really in love? Part three of director Eric Rohmer's "Four Seasons" series which includes AUTUMN TALE, TALE OF WINTER, and TALE OF SPRINGTIME.
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Three Women, One Choice.
The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales Of The Four Seasons series takes place in a resort seaside town. Gaspard, a young graduate student has come to enjoy a vacation with his "sort-of" girlfriend. As he awaits her arrival, he quickly finds his attention drawn to two other women. Over the next three weeks, he struggles to choose among the three women.
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