In the outskirts of Paris a young clerk called Blanche befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos.
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“In Boyfriends and Girlfriends, Rohmer reduced the gap between the sublime and the pathetic that he had made one of the great principles of his cinema – or more exactly, to use Léa’s own words, between the ‘extraordinary’ and the ‘solid.’ It is in the acceptance of the solid (a less brilliant boy, a less romantic story) that the revelation of the extraordinary takes place. It is in the proximity of the pathetic (the meager popular distractions on the outskirts of the new towns) that the future lovers commune in the apprehension of the sublime.”
Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe1
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Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, Éric Rohmer
A Biography (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).
