A Tale of Winter (Conte d'hiver)

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Product Description ------------------- A young couple, Félicie and Charles, meet while on holiday and fall deeply in love. In a al 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. 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. 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. 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. Review ------ [Rohmer] is at once a realist (his characters behave as people actually do) and a practitioner of subtle magic realism, in the way hidden patterns, coincidences, misunderstandings, happy chances and eful accidents befall his characters... What pervades Rohmer's work is a faith in love--or, if not love, then in the right people finding each other for the right reasons... To attend his films is to be for a time in the company of people we would like to know, and then to realize that in various ways they are ourselves. --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times A heart-stopping exploration of the relationship between e and faith...Imagine a Robert Bresson remake of Before Sunset, and you'll be on the right track. --Time Out New York Necessary viewing for every human interested in matters of the heart...I urge you to do everything you can to seek out this film. --Nathan Silver, The Talkhouse