The Green Ray (film)

The Green Ray French Le Rayon vert is a 1986 film by ric Rohmer. It was released as Summer in North America. The film stars Marie Rivire, Rosette, Batrice Romand, Carita and Vincent Gauthier. It is named for the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16mm film and much of the dialogue is improvised.

The movie opens at the start of Delphines summer vacation. Delphine has just suffered the breakup of a relationship and then her travel companion ditched her so that her new boyfriend can accompany her to Greece instead. She is left without plans at a time when Paris is emptying for the summer. Another friend invites Delphine to join a beach party for the weekend, but she finds that shes the only one amongst the group who is single so she quickly returns to Paris. Her family pressures her to spend the holidays with them in Ireland, but she resists. She travels alone to the Alps, but is put off by hordes of vacationers and turns around. Traveling restlessly, the theme of the movie characterized by Roger Ebert becomes clear Delphine is incapable of playing the dumb singles games that lead to onenight stands. She meets a new girlfriend, who flirts with two young men, and she flees in anger. She recoils from the prepackaged lines of the guys she meets in bars and on trains. She simply cannot engage in that kind of mindless doubletalk any longer. Beneath her boredom is genuine anger at the roles that single women are sometimes expected to play. While in Biarritz she eavesdrops on conversation about Jules Vernes novel Le Rayon Vert The Green Ray. According to Verne, when one sees a rare green flash at sunset our own thoughts and those of others are revealed as if by magic. At the Biarritz railway station she meets a young man who is travelling to SaintJeandeLuz. She goes with him and together they observe le rayon vert the Green flash.In 1980 Rohmer embarked on a series of films each based on a proverb the Comedies and Proverbs. The fifth Comedy and Proverb was The Green Ray in 1986. The theme was a phrase from Rimbaud Ah que le temps vienne o les curs sprennent Oh May the time come when hearts fall in love Rohmer explained that I was struck by the naturalness of television interviews. You can say that here, nature is perfect. If you look for it, you find it because

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