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A teenage girl watches adults play musical chairs with their hearts. Rohmer's cruel, hilarious summer.
TMDB
70
Rotten Tomatoes
94
Audience Score
84
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Pauline at the Beach (1983)

philosophical soap operabeach house tensionFrench horniness

Overview

ComedyDramaRomance

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...

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Content warning
holidayseajealousybeachgirlfrienddivorcelove of one's lifewomanizerflirtmarriage problems+1 more

Standout Aspects

Writing

Dialogue so precise it feels improvised; every lie hangs in humid air.

Cinematography

Granville's pale beaches as emotional limbo—beautiful and slightly punishing.

Acting

Langlet's watchful stillness against Dombasle's magnificent self-dramatizing.

Best for:Solo: Rainy afternoon when you want to feel smug about other people's bad decisions.·Date Night: Only if your relationship can survive watching fictional people be terrible at love.·Rewatch: Second viewing reveals how much Pauline sees that Marion misses.
Heads up:Sexual Content: Adults pursue casual encounters with philosophical pretension; teenage Pauline observes.
Éric Rohmer

Director

Éric Rohmer

ReleasedMar 23, 1983
Runtime1h 34m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Paceslow
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelmedium
Les Films du Losange
Les Films Ariane

Top Cast

Amanda Langlet

Amanda Langlet

Pauline

Arielle Dombasle

Arielle Dombasle

Marion

Pascal Greggory

Pascal Greggory

Pierre

Féodor Atkine

Féodor Atkine

Henri

Simon de La Brosse

Simon de La Brosse

Sylvain

Rosette

Rosette

Louisette

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Trivia

Rohmer shot the Granville scenes in actual off-season September; the cast's visible chill is real.

Cultural

Part of Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' cycle, this embodies his belief that moral tales need no punishment—self-knowledge is torture enough.

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