Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair ... See full summary »

Director:

Éric Rohmer

Writer:

Éric Rohmer

Stars:

Joëlle Miquel, Jessica Forde, Mr. Housseau

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Joëlle Miquel	...	Reinette
Jessica Forde	...	Mirabelle
Mr. Housseau	...	Le voisin
Mme. Housseau	...	La voisine
Philippe Laudenbach	...	Le garçon de café
François-Marie Banier	...	1er Passant
Jean-Claude Brisseau	...	2e Passant
Yasmine Haury	...	Kleptomaniac
Gérard Courant	...	L'inspecteur
Béatrice Romand	...	L'inspectrice
Marie Rivière	...	L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
David Rocksavage	...	L'anglais
Jacques Auffray	...	Le tapeur
Haydée Caillot	...	Charitable Lady
Fabrice Luchini	...	Le marchand de tableau

Storyline

Reinette and Mirabelle are two young girls. Reinette lives in the countryside, Mirabelle in Paris. They meet during a holiday of Mirabelle in the country, when Reinette helps her to repair the tube of her bicycle and shows her the beauties of nature and in particular the 'blue hour'. They like each other and decide to take a flat together in Paris, where they'll attend at the University. But isn't so easy to live together when the characters are so different: as Reinette is simple and enthusiastic, as Mirabelle is obscure and lazy.

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Plot Keywords:

waiter | bicycle | urban setting | joy of life | rural setting | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

This movie contains 4 episodes: 1) L'heures bleue; 2) Le garcon de café; 3) Le mendiant, la kleptomane et l'arnaqueuse; 4) La vente du tableau.

User Reviews

for Rohmer enthusiasts only

A typical Eric Rohmer film is not unlike the ideal croissant: a light and flaky taste of empty calories. His fans don't expect anything more, and will likely find four times the fun in this quartet of mini-parables involving two young pals with very little in common. Reinette is a naive and slightly neurotic child of nature, while Mirabelle is the more demure, sophisticated city girl, and their so-called adventures don't amount to much more than mildly comic pokes at all-too human idiosyncrasies. Each of the four stories exhibits varying degrees of cleverness and charm, but with no binding continuity between them and no real motive or resolution (all part of their appeal, no doubt) the end result is a whimsical but insignificant movie, easy enough to enjoy but difficult to recall in detail twenty minutes later.

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

19 July 1989 (USA)

Also Known As:

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$5,051, 24 July 2011

Gross USA:

$22,039

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$22,039

Company Credits

Production Co:

Compagnie Eric Rohmer (CER), Les Films du Losange

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1