A shy maths student goes on holiday to Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes that the girl he is in love with will accompany him, but soon makes friends with another girl who works in the village. She in turn introduces him to yet another girl who has her eye on him.

François works at night and loves Anne, who works during the day. This results in them never seeing one another. One morning, he sees her leaving her house with an airline-pilot. In the afternoon, instead of sleeping, he wanders the streets and recognises the pilot with another woman.

The third in the 1980s series “Comédies et Proverbes” by Rohmer.

“Why would I tie myself to one woman?” asks Jerôme in Le genou de Claire, though he plans to marry a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end.

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

Counterpart of Love in the Afternoon from the point of view of I. (1) She likes to go out. He doesn’t. Besides, she sees that she likes to go out without him. He plays a sport she doesn’t like. She goes out with K., pretending they are a couple. But she would like not to go home.

« Ce qui m’intéresse davantage c’est ce que le français actuel a perdu par rapport au français d’autrefois, à savoir certainement la clarté et l’articulation. J’aime que les gens articulent, et je ne pense pas que cela enlève la spontanéité.