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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ROHMER,ERIC
EAN: 9780792854944
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792854942
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 55436
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
Come take a leisurely, relaxing trip to the sun-soaked, sandy beaches of Brittany in this bewitchingly funny yet profoundly wise comedy (Vogue) from acclaimed French writer/director Eric Rohmer. Winner* for Best Direction at the Berlin Film Festival, Pauline at the Beach is delightful a film of summer sunlight, bare skin and escalating amorous misunderstandings (Newsweek). Young and beautiful Pauline is spending the end of the summer with her older and sexuallyalluring cousin Marion on the stunning Atlantic coast of France. And it isn't long before three eligible men attempt to entice them both into romance. But head games, deceit and lies soon interfere with the amorous mood, threatening to spoil this idyllic playground and Pauline's innocent views of love. *1983
Amazon.com:
In the lighthearted third film in Eric Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series, 15-year-old Pauline (Amanda Langlet) gets an eye-opening lesson in the games grown-ups play on a two-week summer vacation with her recently divorced and ready-for-fun older cousin Marion (Arielle Dombasle, every inch the vivacious blonde goddess). Smitten young Pascal Greggory turns aggressive with jealousy when the smooth, seductive, happily shallow writer Féodor Atkine wins the fancy of the 'perfect' Marion while continuing to fool around on the side. The tangled affairs, mistaken identities, and white lies are the stuff of sex farce, but Rohmer is more interested in the folly of love and the impulsive, illogical workings of human nature. He deftly crafts a gentle and sexy little human comedy that ends with Pauline learning perhaps the right lessons after all. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'Pauline à la plage.'
Éric Rohmer (1920) first challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, "Six Moral Tales," which he completed in 1972 before commencing another six-film cycle, "Comedies and Proverbs," each based on a different proverb.
Based on the proverb, "he who talks too much will hurt himself," Pauline At The Beach (Pauline à la plage) (1983) is the third in Rohmer's insightful "Comedies & Proverbs" film series. Set in Normandy, it tells the seaside-romance ... Read More
Rating: - Pauline at the Beach
One of Eric Rohmer's most enjoyable meditations on love and its discontents, "Pauline" is abetted by the presence of Langlet, an endearing and assured young actress. Rohmer takes his time observing his five characters and lets us get to know their (often deceptive) behavior, a tack that works wonders in his lively world of erotic farce. Jealousy, indiscretion, and human foibles are the thematic materials Rohmer works with here, all of which enmesh vain Marion in a love triangle of sorts, but it's young ... Read More
Rating:  - light-hearted pretension, but at least it ends pessimistically
This is a coming of age film about getting it while on vacation. Some people are too serious and gushing sincerity, some stupid and self-deluding, some simply lustful and selfish. Pauline observes it all and grows, in my view acting more maturely than the adults. And the ending is realistic. There is nothing slick about Rohmer's production, and I never particularly liked his style and pedantic philosophical monologues, which the French really DO indulge in, in my humble experience. This uncompromising ... Read More
Rating: - One of Rohmer's best films, and the true nature of love...
"Pauline At The Beach" (1983) is an interesting film that you are likely to enjoy, even if you are not one of Eric Rohmer's fans. If you are already an admirer, though, you will simply love this movie, due to the fact that it displays the reason why Rohmer is such a respected director.
Before talking about this film, a short introduction to Rohmer for those that are not familiar with him is in order. Rohmer (Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, born in 1920 in France) is part of "La Nouvelle Vague" (= ... Read More
Rating: - Rohmer Gives Us a Delictable Morsel
Pauline at the Beach was part of Eric Rohmer's Comedies et Proverbes series. Each film explores relationships between men and women. This is a piece of fluff. But that is not a negative. This piece of fluff is truly delicious and a tasty morsel to be relished.
Pauline is a school girl who is finishing her summer holiday with her cousin Marion at a family seaside cottage. Marion is a fashion designer whose marriage has failed.
On their first day on the beach they meet Pierre, an ... Read More
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