The Aviator's Wife (1981)

Original title

La Femme de l'aviateur

Directed by

Éric Rohmer

Genre

drama film, comedy film, comedy drama

Country

France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

12

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 125 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man suspects his girlfriend is cheating on him with a pilot. He follows the pilot and meets a teenage girl, leading to a day of conversation and confusion in Paris.

talkylightheartedobservationalplayfulwryeverydaygently ironic

What happens

The Aviator's Wife (French: La Femme de l'aviateur) is a 1981 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. The film stars Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière and Anne-Laure Meury. Like many of Rohmer's films, it deals with the ever-evolving love lives of a group of young Parisians. The film is the first instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies & Proverbs" series—a collection of six films the director made during the 1980s. Each of these films begins with a proverb, in the case of The Aviator's Wife this is: "On ne saurait penser à rien" or "It is impossible to think about nothing". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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