A Tale of Springtime
- Anne Teyssèdre: Jeanne
- Hugues Quester Igor
- Florence Darel: Natacha
- Eloïse Bennett: Eve
- Sophie Robin: Gaelle
Spring narrative ( Conte de printemps ) is a French comedy film from 1990, and forms the first part of the story cycle of the four seasons ( Contes des quatre saisons ). The other films in the cycle are summer (1996 ), Autumn Story (1998) and The Winter's Tale (1992). Director and screenwriter Éric Rohmer is one of the leading representatives of the Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave ), whose terse style is paired with a great love for meticulous detail.
Action
Jeanne is a young philosophy teacher who makes their practical training at a high school in the Paris area. She lives with her boyfriend Mathieu, a mathematician with a penchant for disorder. But Jeanne, who actually do not like clutter, it holds therefore not in his apartment when he leaves and she is alone. Your own apartment but is currently taken from her cousin Gaelle hogging, who has left it and they also do not want to put in front of the door. Without knowing where to spend the night, Jeanne goes to a party in the evening for housewarming and comes there to talk to the pretty girl Natacha. Both like each other from the beginning and quickly close friendship. Natacha, who studied piano at the Conservatory, Jeanne invites her to his home and offers to give her her father's bedroom, which is almost never stayed at home. Her father Igor is an official at the Ministry of Culture and lives with his girlfriend Eve, who is barely older than his daughter. Jeanne accepts the invitation and they both leave the party early.
The next morning, Igor comes home past a few garments take, as Jeanne just take a shower. Both are surprised and embarrassed; each apologize to the other for his behavior. In the afternoon, when Natacha returns from school, burn them formally on getting described the first meeting of Jeanne with Igor - they can not stand Eve namely and wants nothing more than another friend for her father. From now on, Natacha tried with moderate skill, Jeanne and Igor together whenever they can manage it. In the evening meet for the first time all three women, Jeanne, Natacha and Eve dinner together. It relaxes a heated discussion, in which the individual characters with their mutual preference for each other and especially dislikes her stand out against each other. The next day, Jeanne and Natacha are alone again and drive together to Fontainebleau to the villa of Natacha's father. It is the first visit there after the winter and the garden is reflected in the white flower dress. Natacha tells of her suspicions that Eve and Igor, are not entirely innocent in the disappearance of a necklace of her mother, who, Natacha, was supposed to receive for his birthday. Again and again she addresses this issue and makes the two allegations.
A week later, they go back to the villa out, but this time Igor is there, unfortunately, as Natacha must determine, along with Eve. During the preparations for lunch occurs between Eve and Natacha to a head, Jeanne tried in vain to settle, and Igor brings Eve perforce to the station. After Natacha has successfully sold the hated Eve, suddenly appears Natacha's friend, barely younger than her father, both on and settle also, so that Jeanne and Igor are left alone. In the evening, running in the background recording, playing on the Natacha Schumann, Igor and Jeanne come timidly closer, she grants him three wishes: to sit next to her, to hold her hand to kiss it; but, for it is enough for her and she ends the game. As Jeanne, returned to Paris, their stuff from Igor's bedroom closet takes out her falls by chance the long-sought necklace 's feet, which eventually turns out to Igors and especially Eve's innocence. After she has in all sincerity by Natacha wearing her necklace proudly adopted, it will return to Mathieu's apartment, where she awaits the return of her friend.
Criticism
- Lexicon of international film: The first part of Eric Rohmer's cinematic cycle "Four Seasons" describes in an elegant staging and with a light hand the often difficult coexistence of humans. Due to the discrepancy between thought and action, the audience is kept at an ironic distance that allows him to follow the plot as well as amused fascination.
- Catholic film work: How flower arrangements arranges the moralist 70 years of French cinema, the people constellations always new and so explores the possibility or impossibility of relationships. The focus of both elegant and weightless staged Spring tale of polished dialogue stands out as the most civilized form of expression of human interaction because it allows conclusions on the nature and state of mind of the protagonist. [ ... ] Here forbearance and ironic distance determine the staging, the audience is entertained persecuted, even if there were any references to weaknesses of one's character.