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MOVING IMAGES
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (France, 1987)
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Director Eric Rohmer, 99 minutes
Screening on 17th December 2004
Venue: International Centre Goa, Dona Paula
Time: 6:30 pm
Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet) works for the council at Cergy-Pontoise, a new
town just outside Paris. One day she meets Léa (Sophie Renoir) and the two
young women become friends. At the local swimming pool, they bump into
Alexandre (François-Eric Gendron) and his girlfriend Adrienne (Anne-Laure
Meury). Blanche is immediately attracted to Alexandre. However, one day
during the holidays she bumps into Fabien (Eric Veillard), who's Léa's
boyfriend.
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend was the sixth and last of Rohmer's Comedies and
Proverbs series, which occupied him through most of the 1980s. Each of the
six films illustrates a saying: here it's 'My friend's friends are my
friends'
Rohmer's directing style had developed a simplicity that's deceptive,
because the camera is always in the right place, and the editing (by
Maria-Luisa Garcia) precisely right. There's no getting away from the fact
that his films are slow especially by Hollywood standards, but Rohmer
doesn't keep a shot on screen longer than he needs to. This seeming
artlessness disguises how tightly plotted his best films actually are, in
this case leading up to a twist in the tail. It's easy to overrate bravura
displays of directorial flashiness over a self-effacing style like this, but
that's always been the way. Rohmer is undeniably an acquired taste, but this
film is as good an introduction as any other - chances are, if you like this
you'll want to see the others.
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