

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...
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.

Director
Éric Rohmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rohmer shot the Granville scenes in actual off-season September; the cast's visible chill is real.
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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