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      A Winter's Tale

      1992 1h 53m Romance List
      96% 23 Reviews Tomatometer 81% 500+ Ratings Audience Score A woman (Charlotte Véry) has an affair with her boss (Michel Voletti) and a librarian but longs for the man (Frédéric van den Driessche) she met five years ago. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Feb 13 Buy Now

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      William L "To you, only what's written is true. It's a gulf between us." A Tale of Winter is a story of romance more than it is a story of love, and yes, there is a difference; it is a woman's struggle with the ideas of passion, attraction, and satisfaction. A whirlwind romance and a twist of fate leads Charlotte Véry's Félicie with an unexpected child and a yearning for a lover she knew only briefly. Now separated by a twist of fate, she makes her way through relationships as a matter of practicality and compromise, knowing that she can likely never replicate the sensations she felt with her first joys, but seeing half-measures as superior to nothing at all. Though there is an undercurrent of struggle and bleak reality - the winter palette is full of grays and muted tones - but an ultimate return to hopeful wonder and a reward for Félicie's 'loyalty'. While the ending is somewhat gratifying and unlikely, it's very difficult to avoid enjoying it having endured Félicie's consistent subdued suffering alongside her. From a production perspective, Rohmer puts some interesting twists in A Tale of Winter, the most obvious of which (apart from the color scheme, which is tightly controlled) comes from the editing room. Surprisingly rapid cuts in the establishing shots give a sense of life and vibrancy to the space between 'significant' occurrences, which are typically marked by substantially longer scenes (including a surprisingly lengthy rendition of Shakepeare's 'The Winter's Tale', which has heavy thematic implications and lends the film its title) and leave a heavier impact. A very good late-career romance from a master of the French New Wave. (3.5/5) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/30/21 Full Review S R 1001 movies to see before you die. An odd tale of a woman in search of true love. It was on CRI. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Another great Rohmer film. It's about a young mothers devotion to the man she fell in love with one night many years ago. Her child is his, to which they lost track of each other because she misspelled her address. It's an enjoyable watch as any other Rohmer. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Because of the protagonist, I just don't feel like this one at all. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member #2 in rohmer's saga of 4 seasons Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member http://filmreviewsnsuch.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-tale-of-winter.html Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Mermelstein Wall Street Journal Félicie's (Charlotte Véry) naïve pining gets annoying, but Rohmer’s deft handling of faith (he was a devout Catholic all his life) effectively transcends the probable for something much more satisfying. Feb 17, 2024 Full Review Jackie Potts Miami Herald A Tale of Winter is unabashedly romantic and life-affirming, like Rohmer himself. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 17, 2021 Full Review Peter Keough Boston Globe This winter romance by Rohmer, then in his 70s, demonstrates that faith and art can work miracles. Rated: 3.5/4 Mar 12, 2015 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills The most profoundly French of postwar French filmmakers... May 7, 2021 Full Review Kathy Fennessy The Stranger (Seattle, WA) The late Eric Rohmer had a knack for investing soap-opera configurations-love triangles, extramarital affairs-with complexity and surprise. Aug 21, 2017 Full Review Joe Bendel Epoch Times A quintessentially Rohmeresque film in that it leaves viewers feeling they have eavesdropped on someone else's life and maybe gleaned a few lessons from the experience. Rated: 3.5/5 Jun 3, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A woman (Charlotte Véry) has an affair with her boss (Michel Voletti) and a librarian but longs for the man (Frédéric van den Driessche) she met five years ago.
      Director
      Éric Rohmer
      Screenwriter
      Éric Rohmer
      Production Co
      Les Films du Losange, Compagnie Eric Rohmer
      Genre
      Romance
      Original Language
      French (Canada)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Aug 10, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $22.5K
      Runtime
      1h 53m
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