Le Beau Mariage (1982)

Directed by

Éric Rohmer

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

France

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

U

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 91 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young art history student decides to stop dating married men and sets her sights on a successful bachelor lawyer. She pursues him with a plan to settle down, but he seems less interested in her scheme.

light-heartedconversationalwryintrospectivebittersweetmildly comicobservationalcerebral

What happens

Le Beau Mariage (lit. 'The Good Marriage') is a 1982 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle and Féodor Atkine. It follows a young art history student (Romand) who swears off affairs with married men in favor of finding a husband, and soon pursues a successful and single lawyer (Dussollier). The film is the second instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies & Proverbs" (Comédies et Proverbes) series. It opens with a proverb by Jean de La Fontaine: "Quel esprit ne bat la campagne? Qui ne fait château en Espagne?" ("Who doesn't daydream? Who doesn't build castles in the air?"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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