A Tale of Summer

Director: Éric Rohmer

1996 / 113min / DCP

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard (Melvil Poupard) befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot (Amanda Lenglet) and the sensual townie Solène (Gwenaëlle Simon), making for a rather complicated situation when Léna (Aurelia Nolin) finally shows. A lovely, languorous, and ultimately bittersweet film about mercurial youth, and the least seen—at least in the US—of Rohmer’s Tales of Four Seasons. “Of all the films I’ve made, I think this is the most personal vehicle,” he would proclaim, “I have carried with me the story of the film… for a long time.”

Part of Summer at Sea