Underplayed Gems

Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

Rendezvous in Paris poster
Original title
Les Rendez-vous de Paris
Directed by
Éric Rohmer
Genre
anthology film, romantic comedy
Country
France
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 58 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Three short stories follow Parisians who meet by chance. A student finds out her boyfriend is seeing someone else. A woman talks to a literature teacher in parks. An artist is drawn to a stranger.

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What happens

Rendezvous in Paris (French: Les Rendez-vous de Paris) is a 1995 French romantic comedy anthology film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. The film consists of three loosely connected episodes revolving around chance meetings in Paris: "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures" ("The Rendezvous at 7 P.M."), in which a student discovers her boyfriend is two-timing her; "Les Bancs de Paris" ("The Benches of Paris"), in which an unnamed woman has a series of meetings in parks with a handsome literature teacher from the suburbs; and "Mère et enfant 1907" ("Mother and Child 1907"), which takes its title from a Picasso painting, and centres on an artist who is attracted by a stranger. The three stories of the film are linked by a girl singing in the streets to an accordion accompaniment—a homage to René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris (1930). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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