Pauline At The Beach

For the third in Eric Rohmer's series of "Comedies and Proverbs," the director shifts from Paris to the coast of Normandy. Pauline (Amanda Langlet) is a teenager on vacation with her older, recently divorced cousin, Marion (Arielle Dombasle). They become involved with three men during a beachside vacation. Marion carries on with a writer, Henry (Feodor Atkine), and tries to ignore the advances of an old friend, Pierre (Pascal Greggory), while Pauline meets a boy her own age, Sylvain (Simon De La Brosse), and has her first sexual experiences. This film is close in spirit to the work of Jean Renoir. Rohmer confines much of it to the beach and a vacation home, turning...