Eric Rohmer's film series The Four Seasons Tales resemble his earlier series The Moral Tales in its similar set-ups. In The Four Seasons Tales characters are lead to similar choices of love and moral, that bring up repressed emotions and emotional crises. But in spite of these the right ones "soulmates" find each other. The usual set-up in Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales was that one person loves other, but is tempted by another person. But for one reason or another stays with the first one, or comes back to him/her. This is the set-up A Tale of Winter builds around.
On summer five years ago Félicie (Charlotte Véry) met a man, Charles she fell deeply in love with. She accidentally lost him, in result of giving a wrong address for an unknown reason. Felicie is alone taking care of their child Elise and is in between of two men, she really doesn't love. Because her love against the long lost Charles hasn't disappeared.
The film's story itself is already interesting, but of course when you know the director, it doesn't stop on a good story. A Tale of Winter is slightly based, or actually build around the play by William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (1611) which is about a dead queen who suddenly comes to life. Eric Rohmer has said that the play inspired him to make the whole series, The Four Seasons Tales. He wanted to make the audience feel like they feel watching Shakespeare's play's ending, to see something dead come to life.
Eric Rohmer's films are always a delight, they usually teach you something new about life and cinema. His films are full of intellectual dialog and moral choices spiced up with mature and intelligent humor. Eric Rohmer just recently passed away on January the 11th, but his films will live forever. When he started his career he proceeded with more determination than anyone by making three film series. The Four Season Tales is his last and it can easily be looked as a reflection of his whole career.
A Tale of Winter as many other films by Rohmer lean on coincidence, the plot of his films is always about coincidence. Something that happens makes to something else to happen, his films include a lot of film philosophy. His earlier film Ma nuit chez Maud (1969, My Night at Maud's) is about the famous Pascal wager: One should always bet on behalf of the existence of God, because that way one cannot lose anything. In A Tale of Winter this wager is also mentioned and is an important part of many discussions.
A very good late film from the French master of cinema. A Tale of Winter is about memory, loneliness, love and the loss of it. It offers some comical and touching situations to the gray everyday Christmas.
On summer five years ago Félicie (Charlotte Véry) met a man, Charles she fell deeply in love with. She accidentally lost him, in result of giving a wrong address for an unknown reason. Felicie is alone taking care of their child Elise and is in between of two men, she really doesn't love. Because her love against the long lost Charles hasn't disappeared.
The film's story itself is already interesting, but of course when you know the director, it doesn't stop on a good story. A Tale of Winter is slightly based, or actually build around the play by William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (1611) which is about a dead queen who suddenly comes to life. Eric Rohmer has said that the play inspired him to make the whole series, The Four Seasons Tales. He wanted to make the audience feel like they feel watching Shakespeare's play's ending, to see something dead come to life.
Eric Rohmer's films are always a delight, they usually teach you something new about life and cinema. His films are full of intellectual dialog and moral choices spiced up with mature and intelligent humor. Eric Rohmer just recently passed away on January the 11th, but his films will live forever. When he started his career he proceeded with more determination than anyone by making three film series. The Four Season Tales is his last and it can easily be looked as a reflection of his whole career.
A Tale of Winter as many other films by Rohmer lean on coincidence, the plot of his films is always about coincidence. Something that happens makes to something else to happen, his films include a lot of film philosophy. His earlier film Ma nuit chez Maud (1969, My Night at Maud's) is about the famous Pascal wager: One should always bet on behalf of the existence of God, because that way one cannot lose anything. In A Tale of Winter this wager is also mentioned and is an important part of many discussions.
A very good late film from the French master of cinema. A Tale of Winter is about memory, loneliness, love and the loss of it. It offers some comical and touching situations to the gray everyday Christmas.