In this story, there's nothing so upsetting that a poem carved into a tree can't solve, and no hearts so broken that a spot of crossdressing can't cheer them up again.

| Feb 10, 2019

...the director's own sweet, unexpected eroticism, and the film's gentle spirit simply make a work that is light, lovely, and strange.

| Nov 17, 2017

Rohmer left the stage with an audacious flourish, infusing a fifth-century pastoral fantasy (adapted from a seventeenth-century novel) with a lifetime of stories, passions, and big ideas.

| Sep 11, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Blissful

| Aug 26, 2009

In what he claims will be his final film, 87-year-old Eric Rohmer fashions a serenely daffy coda to a half a lifetime spent behind the camera exploring the vicissitudes of romance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2009

The movie does rather run on, although it is charming and sweet, and is perhaps too languid.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 30, 2009

It's often as fresh and buoyant as [Rohmer's] modern takes on the battle of the sexes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2008

This is no historical portrait of ancient life but a dreamy reflection of 17th-century romanticism of the past...

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 6, 2008

But I wish the acting was less like amateur dramatics and the plot less like a slightly camp game.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Rohmer's gentle philosophical chat is better heard, I think, among the muddled middle-classes of late-20th century France.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

A transcendentally batty essay in am-dram costume cinema, starchy with recitative, fragrant with period fabric conditioner and white with laundered emotionalism.

| Sep 12, 2008

Strip away the fey costumes, aristocratic nymphs, kindly druids and fairytale castles and what have you got? A typically Rohmerian exploration of courtship and fidelity among innocent young 'uns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The director's usual traits are present and correct - glacial pacing, silent film-like direction, a love of nature - meaning audiences' eyes will soon Rohmer about the room looking for an exit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

It's a wisp of a film, touchingly earnest but light on point.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

At any rate, this is utterly distinctive. Go and see it: a sorbet of high-mindedness to refresh the palate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The film, talky, tediously overlong and crammed with kitsch, postcard-pretty country scenery, gets exponentially weirder by the minute, culminating in a cross-dressing pseudo-lesbian clinch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Rohmer's swansong is droll, dignified and dull as a druid's dishwater.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

It is the wisdom, passion, joy and hope with which he invests the film that makes it so terribly moving.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Sep 12, 2008

Some may find the digressions on the nature of love heavy going, but such qualms only reaffirm that the swansonging Rohmer retained his individuality throughout his 50-year career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008