Chloe in the Afternoon

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Stephen C @bob25009 Mar 12 Success in 1 hour and 33 minutes. See more Alain E @AlainE Aug 2 An interesting viewing, but in my opinion not really sensational. Frederic spends the duration of the movie dealing with temptation, but ultimately staying faithful to his wife. When he decides at very last moment not to jump in bed with the other girl who pursues him, he returns home early and then his wife breaks down, indicating that when she was seen in town with another man probably he was not showing her his stamp collection and she now feels guilty. The film ends there and we never learn if Frederic put two and two together. See more Noel P @RT80219132 05/22/2023 My favorite French film. This film should be an example in film schools (especially today) on how to teach a moral lesson to your audience without being heavy handed. For a film full of passion and temptation, it paradoxically celebrated marriage and fidelity -- which I imagine would be very difficult to pull off. A masterpiece and one of my favorite romances. See more 07/26/2020 Selfish and selfless acts amongst characters who think in fantasy without a thought for consequences; slowly draws you in See more s r @ScottR 03/17/2018 Very French film about mistresses and love. I don't feel compelled to see it again besides to view it as a period piece with some good fashion from the French 70s. See more 07/12/2016 The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales finds Frederic, a young businessman, reflecting on his life after three years of marriage. His internal thoughts are narrated in voiceover. He thinks about women and his attraction to them in the context of his fidelity to his wife which he is proud to honour. They have a very young daughter as well. Frederic's life has become bourgeois but he sees himself as a sort of urban cat, prowling around in the afternoons. When an old acquaintance, Chloe, returns after a six-year absence overseas, she provokes him and challenges his views about relationships. She is rootless, flitting from job to job and from man to man, clearly independent and willful and sexy for that reason. Frederic finds himself drawn to her and they set up rendezvouses on certain afternoons, physically chaste though emotionally all over the place. Rohmer is good at getting into his male characters' psyches, undermining their confidence and throwing moral dilemmas at them. We don't really get inside the women but they are treated as mysterious and special. Rohmer's films are naturally all talk but they can be exhilarating and refreshing. We don't know where Frederic is heading but the conclusion of the film feels to be his choice, made freely and autonomously and Rohmer respects it (as he respects his audience and his vision). See more Read all reviews

Chloe in the Afternoon

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