Frédéric's perfectly ordered life passes by pleasantly enough. He’s married to the woman he loves, is the father of an adorable little girl, and has set up a prosperous business with a colleague. He even has free time to idle and enjoy the pleasures of Parisian life. One afternoon, Chloé, his best friend's ex-girlfriend, turns up in his office after several years’ absence. She regularly returns and becomes a welcome distraction in Frédéric's monotonous daily life.
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“In [La collectionneuse] and his two subsequent films – Claire’s Knee (1970) and Love in the Afternoon (1972) – Rohmer confirmed both his expertise and his originality as a witty and unsentimental yet profoundly humane investigator of human desire and anxiety. As his admirably chatty characters – usually played by relatively unknown actors, and very often by people (painters, novelists, Marxists) practicing the same profession in life as on-screen – ponder and discuss love, beauty, happiness, work, ambition, ethics, and so forth, Rohmer shows his respect and sympathy by paying proper attention to what they say and do, even as he slowly but surely exposes the gulf between what’s said and what’s done, what’s felt and what’s thought, between rationality and impulse, appearance and reality.”
Geoff Andrew1
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Geoff Andrew, “Eric Rohmer and the Six Moral Tales,” Criterion, 14 August 2006.
