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Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Original title: L'ami de mon amie
  • 19871987
  • PGPG
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
5.3K
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
ComedyDramaRomance
In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is h... Read allIn Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos!In Paris outskirts Blanche, a young clerk, befriends Lea, a girl livelier than she is. Lea is going steady with Fabien who is a friend to Alexandre who is going steady with Adrienne but is however loved by Blanche. Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos!
IMDb RATING
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5.3K
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    • Éric Rohmer
    • Éric Rohmer
  • Stars
    • Emmanuelle Chaulet
    • Sophie Renoir
    • Anne-Laure Meury
    • Éric Rohmer
    • Éric Rohmer
  • Stars
    • Emmanuelle Chaulet
    • Sophie Renoir
    • Anne-Laure Meury
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    • 18User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
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    Emmanuelle Chaulet
    Emmanuelle Chaulet
    • Blanche
    Sophie Renoir
    Sophie Renoir
    • Lea
    Anne-Laure Meury
    Anne-Laure Meury
    • Adrienne
    Eric Viellard
    Eric Viellard
    • Fabien
    François-Eric Gendron
    François-Eric Gendron
    • Alexandre
      • Éric Rohmer
      • Éric Rohmer
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    • Trivia
      The last of director Éric Rohmer's six "Comedies et Proverbes" series of movies of the 1980s. The other five, in chronological order, are The Aviator's Wife (1981), Le beau mariage (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984) and Summer (1986).
    • Quotes

      Alexandre: If you must know, I like slender, rather tall girls.

      Lea: Blondes or brunettes?

      Alexandre: Brunettes. With smooth, light, slightly tanned skin. They really attract me. Especially when they have big eyes and silky lashes.

      Lea: Cut it out. You promised not to lay it on!

      Alexandre: I'm not laying it on! You asked what my type was! You're much closer than Adrienne to my ideal. You've always attracted me. But fate was against it.

      Lea: Fate! You control yours, don't be modest!

      Alexandre: You're wrong! I don't like to push. I'm no Romeo. The fact is, girls like me! It's given me bad habits. It can be a disadvantage. They seek me out, so I just relax. Means I don't always wind up with the best. If I like a girl, I'll meet her sooner or later... Better later then too soon. Take us... I'm glad I met you now, not 6 months ago. We're both available...

      Lea: Stop it! What's available mean? And I don't like your kind of guy. I like to be wooed!

      Alexandre: You were with Fabien!

      Lea: You should have been insanely jealous.

      Alexandre: Who says I wasn't?

      Lea: Actions talk! You should've done something wild!

      Alexandre: Let's run away. I'll kidnap you!

      Lea: That's not so wild. And I said no!

      Alexandre: I heard yes.

      Lea: It meant no.

      Alexandre: I'll think of something wilder... Come live with me! You've even got your bags! My place's too big for me alone.

      Lea: When you're alone!

      Alexandre: I'm alone now.

      Lea: I'm going to my folks'. They're expecting me.

      Alexandre: Call them back!

      Lea: They're asleep.

      Alexandre: So they're not waiting up!

      Lea: I might move in with you, but not now. We've known each other 6 months, so wait 6 more months. During that period, you mustn't date anyone else. Then maybe I'll let myself be wooed!

      Alexandre: I accept. But you mustn't date anyone, either.

      Lea: That suits me fine!

      Alexandre: 6 months is a bit long. How about 6 days?

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      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Dead Pool/Phantasm II/Midnight Run/Boyfriends and Girlfriends/Die Hard (1988)

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    9/10
    Shock, horror: realistic relationships
    I am not a fan of Eric Rohmer. The pace of most of his films is very slow, they are full of dialogue, and often I react to his characters with a distinct desire to slap them in the face and shout "get a life!".

    However, this one is different, it is a real gem. Yes, the pace is slow, yes the film is loaded with dialogue, but these characters are believable. We see relationships develop, new ones arriving on the scene and old ones being broken up. The drama is the drama of real life, the characters are ordinary (perhaps a bit better looking than ordinary) young people living in a Parisian suburb, there are no extraordinary things happening to them, just ordinary things. While Rohmer's story is realistic, it is still pleasantly realistic. It is just as romantically heart-warming as, say, While You Were Sleeping, but it does not have to force us to suspend our disbelief.

    One piece of advice many people will fail to appreciate: if you are a non-French speaker, try to see this in a dubbed version, not a subtitled one! The dynamics and meaning of the dialogue in this film is much more important than the original sound, not to mention that subtitles could hardly keep up with this amount of dialogue.
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      • August 26, 1987 (France)
      • France
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      • Base de loisirs, Neuville-sur-Oise, Val-d'Oise, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Losange
      • Investimage
      • Compagnie Eric Rohmer (CER)
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    • 1 hour 43 minutes
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