Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.
Writing
Dialogue so precise it feels improvised, every hesitation counts.
Cinematography
Pastel Cergy-Pontoise: brutalist architecture never looked so romantic.
Director
Éric Rohmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rohmer shot in Cergy-Pontoise, a planned suburb he found more cinematic than Paris itself. The concrete walkways become characters.
Part of Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series—this one's proverb is ironic, since nobody's friends actually stay friends.
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