Autumn Tale

Autumn Tale French Conte dautomne is a 1998 French film, directed by ric Rohmer, starring Batrice Romand, Marie Rivire, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre, Alexia Portal, and Aurlia Alcas. It is the final film of Rohmers Contes des quatre saisons Tales of the Four Seasons, which also includes A Tale of Springtime 1990, A Tale of Winter 1992 and A Summers Tale 1996.

Sight amp Sound called it a beautiful, witty and serene film which never falls into the talkingheads trap. Encounters in cars, cafs, gardens and restaurants are visually dramatised, allowing the characters philosophies the action of the film, as it were to be expressed dynamically. And this literary emphasis on language, something of a clich with Rohmer, and the simplicity of the mise en scne rest on tight plotting in the tradition of Rohmers master, Hitchcock.Stephen Holden, in excerpts republished after the films New York City opening but originally written after the films appearance as part of the 1998 New York Film Festival, called the film as sublimely warming an experience as the autumn sun that shines benevolently on the vineyard owned by the films central character, Magali Beatrice Romand although the film has its labored moments and except for a twist here and there, you know where the story is going to go, the film nevertheless evokes such a sensuous atmosphere bird song, wind and light and shadow that delineate the season and time of day with an astonishing precision that you are all but transported into Magalis fields, where this years grapes promise to yield an especially fine vintage. ........

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