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A Tale of Winter

1992 · 1h 54m · Not Rated Comedy, Drama
Directed by Éric Rohmer

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Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.

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95%
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Fresh

Rohmer's style, over the years, has become so easy and natural that, at its best, his work never seems like fabricated drama... While this low-budget Tale of Winter may seem simple, it's a masterly simplicity.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

As usual, Rohmer works magic with his generally unfamiliar casts, drawing from them more they perhaps realize they're yielding.

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Rohmer has become such a master of his chosen classic genre -- the crystalline philosophical tale of character and romantic choice -- that this is a nearly perfect work, in performance as well as execution.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

With A Tale of Springtime and A Tale of Winter, Eric Rohmer has given us a pair of wonderful motion pictures... I wonder what Summer and Autumn will bring.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh

It has, as ever, enormous compassion, wit and insight, and its ending is exquisitely affecting.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out

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