Saturday, July 29, 2006

Movie Review - The Girl at the Monceau Bakery

La Boulangère de Monceau (1963)
directed by Eric Rohmer
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix

There's something unkind in this moral tale - the hero's cold shoulder on his way to the top. It's inhuman, and it's why I distrust people who think Rohmer's first movies are his best. Mid-career Maurice would stay with the girl at the bakery, not leave us alone with Barbet.