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Love in the Afternoon

7.6

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Original title

L'Amour l'après-midi (Chloe in the Afternoon)aka

AKA

Chloe in the Afternoon

Year

1972

Running time

93 min.

Country

France

Director

Éric Rohmer

Screenwriter

Éric Rohmer

Cast

Music

Arie Dzierlatka

Cinematography

Néstor Almendros

Producer

Les Films du Losange

Genre

Romance. Drama | Friendship. Romantic Drama. Nouvelle vague (New Wave)

Movie Groups

Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales

Synopsis

The last of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales". Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

Rankings Position

#42 Best French Movies of all time
#53 Best Movies of the '70s
#101 Best Romantic Movies in the history of film

Awards: 1972: National Board of Review: Top Foreign Films

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Love in the Afternoon

1972

Éric Rohmer

7.6

(3,102)