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Autumn Tale

Original title: Conte d'automne
  • 1998
  • PG
  • 1h 52m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
5.8K
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Marie Rivière and Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)
ComedyDramaRomance

A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.

  • Director
    • Éric Rohmer
  • Writer
    • Éric Rohmer
  • Stars
    • Marie Rivière
    • Béatrice Romand
    • Alain Libolt
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    5.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Writer
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Stars
      • Marie Rivière
      • Béatrice Romand
      • Alain Libolt
    • 41User reviews
    • 65Critic reviews
    • 81Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 3 nominations

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    Marie Rivière and Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Alain Libolt, Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, and Didier Sandre in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Marie Rivière and Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Alain Libolt, Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, and Didier Sandre in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Marie Rivière and Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Marie Rivière in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Autumn Tale (1998)
    Marie Rivière in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Alexia Portal in Autumn Tale (1998)
    Marie Rivière in Autumn Tale (1998)

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    Marie Rivière
    Marie Rivière
    • Isabelle
    Béatrice Romand
    Béatrice Romand
    • Magali
    Alain Libolt
    • Gérald
    Didier Sandre
    • Étienne
    Alexia Portal
    • Rosine
    Stéphane Darmon
    • Léo
    Aurélia Alcaïs
    • Émilia
    Matthieu Davette
    • Grégoire
    Yves Alcaïs
    • Jean-Jacques
    • Director
      • Éric Rohmer
    • Writer
      • Éric Rohmer
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    • Trivia
      This films evokes Yasujiro Ozu 's films (1903-63) in particular An autumn afternoon ( sanma no aji)1962.
    • Quotes

      Gérald: You really fooled me. I was ready for anything but this. You see, in a way, I'm relieved: Something was fishy, but I couldn't figure it out. But I'm disappointed, too. Very much so. I was already more than interested in you. I don't want to shock you, but I wanted to love you, and I'm frustrated.

      Isabelle: OK, stop this nonsense.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Haunting/Lake Placid/Drop Dead Gorgeous/Inspector Gadget/An Autumn Tale (1999)

    User reviews41

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    9/10
    Rohmer knows relationships
    (Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" Get it at Amazon.)

    And he knows how to write dialogue that is revealing, engaging and realistic, no small feat; and it is perhaps this talent more than anything else that has made Eric Rohmer the great director that he is. Here uses France's Cotes du Rhone wine country as a backdrop and symbol to help him explore not only autumn love, but the enduring friendship of two very different women. Isabelle (Maire Revière) is an elegant, tall, fair haired, blue-eyed haute bourgeoisie and her friend Magali (Beatrice Romand) is a short, earthy, dark-haired petite winemaker originally from Tunisia. Isabelle is happily married; Magali is divorced. They are both forty-something.

    Isabelle's daughter is to be married. But the focus of the film is not on the bride and groom, but on the older generation, on Isabelle and Magali. In this way Rohmer combines the warm and enchantment of the celebration of autumn life, when the grapes are ripe for harvest, when love has its last chance, when Dionysus has his festival, when the heat of summer is over and we are ready to reflect and realize what is really important before it's too late.

    Isabelle feels this strongly and wants her friend to find happiness before another winter comes. But Magali, because of the vineyard, doesn't have much of an opportunity to meet men, although she allows that she would like to. She is at that delicate age when one can try again or shrug it off. Isabelle intervenes by going to a dating service and placing an ad. She meets Gerald (Alain Libolt) and they have lunch (she insists on lunch) two or three times and she evaluates him. He is modest, somewhat suave and amazingly diplomatic. They share a certain attraction.

    Meanwhile, Rosine (Alexia Portal) who is dating Magali's son and who is very close to Magali, perhaps more so that she is to her son, also wants to find a mate for Magali. She proposes her philosophy professor, Etienne (Didier Sandre), who is in fact sweet on her. He is the kind of man who, as Magali observes, likes them younger as he grows older. But maybe she will be the exception. Maybe he will finally grow up. Both arrange for their choices to meet Magali at the wedding.

    As usual Rohmer explores humanity and how we relate to one another, and finds both love and a kind of sweetness that is liable to bring us to tears.

    The resolution of the film is followed by a most endearing anticlimax in which there is a dance of joy.
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    • DennisLittrell
    • Nov 21, 2002

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    • Release date
      • September 23, 1998 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • An Autumn Tale
    • Filming locations
      • Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, Drôme, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Losange
      • La Sept Cinéma
      • Canal+
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,205,339
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $33,631
      • Jul 11, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,221,438
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby

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