The Criterion Collection

Love in the Afternoon

Edition no. 348

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This release can only be found in the following box set: Six Moral Tales

Release Date: Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $99.95 (Box set exclusive)

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Wellspring

Directed by: Eric Rohmer

Featuring: Bernard Verley

Though happily married to his adoring wife Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day. His flirtations and fantasies remain harmless until Chloé (played by the mesmerizing Zouzou), an audacious, unencumbered old flame, shows up at his office, embodying the first genuine threat to Frédéric’s marriage. The luminous final chapter to Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” is a tender, sobering, and wholly adult affair that leads to perhaps the most overwhelmingly emotional moment in the entire series.

Year: 1972
Time: 97 min.