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08/26/09
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:25
Rotten:13
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: A disappointing melodrama with a pedestrian script and direction.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: French legend Eric Rohmer directs this adaptation that played at the film festivals in Toronto, New York, and Venice. Based on a 17th century novel that was set in the bucolic countryside in the... [More]
Starring: Andy Gillet, Stéphanie Crayencour, Cécile Cassel, Mathilde Mosnier
Director: Eric Rohmer
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Reviews for The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
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.
01/30/09
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01/30/09
Top CriticEric Rohmer has said that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is probably his swan song, and he's not pulling any punches here.
11/25/08
It's often as fresh and buoyant as [Rohmer's] modern takes on the battle of the sexes.
11/07/08
This is no historical portrait of ancient life but a dreamy reflection of 17th-century romanticism of the past...
11/06/08
But I wish the acting was less like amateur dramatics and the plot less like a slightly camp game.
09/12/08
Rohmer's gentle philosophical chat is better heard, I think, among the muddled middle-classes of late-20th century France.
09/12/08
A transcendentally batty essay in am-dram costume cinema, starchy with recitative, fragrant with period fabric conditioner and white with laundered emotionalism.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
It's a wisp of a film, touchingly earnest but light on point.
09/12/08
At any rate, this is utterly distinctive. Go and see it: a sorbet of high-mindedness to refresh the palate.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
Rohmer's swansong is droll, dignified and dull as a druid's dishwater.
09/12/08
It is the wisdom, passion, joy and hope with which he invests the film that makes it so terribly moving.
09/12/08
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.
09/12/08
Flatly directed, frequently dull and ultimately disengaging drama that's like watching a badly staged version of an extremely boring play.
09/11/08
Rohmer's swansong is droll, dignified and dull as a druid's dishwater.
09/09/08
The movie looks and feels exactly how it probably was to make: like a walk in the park.
09/05/08
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