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A Tale of Springtime [DVD]

Anne Teyssdre (Actor), Hugues Quester (Actor), Eric Rohmer (Director) Rated:
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4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
IMDb7.1/10.0
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Format Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Contributor Marc Lelou, Eric Rohmer, Anne Teyssdre, Elose Bennett, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Sophie Robin, Franois Lamore See more
Language French
Runtime 1 hour and 47 minutes
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OscarÂ(r)-nominated* writer/director Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) delivers this 'splendid, engaging, delightful revelation (The Village View) that sparkles with humor andsizzles with romance. Heightened by the splendor of the French countryside, A Tale of Springtime is radiantly alive, blissfully awareand among the most beautiful and enlightening [films] in world cinema (Los Angeles Times)! The well-ordered life of Jeanne, a high school philosophy teacher, suddenly spins into disorder when a young stranger she meets at a party involvesher in a devilish scheme. Natacha, an adolescent pianist with a penchant for subtly playing her elders, invites Jeanne to her father's home...hoping to make a match of the two and send her father's current lover, Eve, packing. But when the tempestuous Eve arrives at every chance meeting between Jeanne and Natacha's father, fireworks of an entirely different sort erupt, and everyone is forced toexamine his or her own philosophies on love, relationships and other sordid affairs of the human heart. *1970: Story and Original Screenplay, My Night at Maud's

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 4 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Eric Rohmer
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Anne Teyssdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Elose Bennett, Sophie Robin
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ MGM (Video & DVD)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005UJY6
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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ma main gauche
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic film
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2013
I really liked this film. However, I like all the films that I have seen by Eric Rohmer. He is truly one of the greatest directors and writers of the 20th century.

In this film, the character development is excellent, and you feel that you know the characters intimately by the end of the story. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys nuances in interpersonal relationships or takes interest in other cultures.
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Zoo
4.0 out of 5 stars Ring Of Gyges Viewer
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2015
I liked, but didn't love this film. The two women, Jeanne and Natacha, are enjoyable to watch. I especially liked their developing friendship and their conversations. As a director, Rohmer takes his time, but is never boring. Each of the two women had their faults - Natacha was a bit too pushy and manipulative while Jeanne was too analytical at times. Human beings have their good and bad points and it's hard to achieve that in a movie.

By the end, I wondered what any of the characters had learned or gained. I felt Jeanne was unhappy at the beginning and unhappy when the final credits rolled. Perhaps I was supposed to feel like the ring wearer of Gyges watching events unfold, then stepping away. I think it was this lack of character growth that made this film an unsatisfying experience for me. I'm glad I watched it, though.

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Vlad
3.0 out of 5 stars MGM forgot something essential ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2010
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I`ll be very short and this is in regards for the quality of the dvd, not the great movie. MGM simply managed to blew it. this is 2002. release and they somehow forgot to make it enhanced for 16:9 TVs. shame on them. the 3 rating is there just as I had to put something.
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Matthew Watters
4.0 out of 5 stars A match made .... all in your mind
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2009
While Rohmer's four "seasonal" films are eclipsed by the monumental Autumn's Tale -- which rivals Claire's Knee as the finest film Rohmer ever made -- this first entry in the Tales of Four Seasons is a worthy effort. All four films in the cycle involve a matchmaking theme (although in Winter's Tale, the matchmaker may, egad!, be God), and the cleverness of A Tale of Springtime is how the overly analytical high school philosophy teacher jumps to the conclusion that she is the object of a matchmaking scheme when, indeed, it may be all in her mind, the over-workings of an over-active imagination. While the casting in this film is a bit bland, Rohmer is attentive to details in his usual way: the film opens with the teacher leaving for spring break from Lycee Jacques Brel (how funny is that?) and deciding to head for Paris after viewing the empty disarray of her absent boyfriend's flat. Characters are constantly defined by their habitats and cares, whether flowers on a balcony or an art critic's well-stocked bookcase. Walled-in spaces define the limits of feeling, and what passes for a plot here is so internalised that Rohmer adds a McGuffin, a little mystery over a lost necklace, to give this delicate souffle a bit of structure. It's a masterwork if not a masterpiece by one of the greatest writer-directors in world cinema.
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Artist & Author
1.0 out of 5 stars It Looks Like It Is Going to Be a VERY Long Year
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2009
I really don't like it when I get to the end of a movie and wonder why it was even made. Indeed, this movie moved so slow I think it took just short of an eternity to watch it! My wife, literally, longed for it to come to the end. We both found the conversations to be mostly overly verbose and insignificant to moving the story along. There isn't anything in it that would be against traditional family values. The reason we watched it is because the daughter was eighteen years old, and I'm working on a book on movies about kids. I'd say the best that could be said of this movie is that it does give the feeling of being the 'third wheel' or the 'odd woman out.' This is supposed to be the first in a series of four seasons; if so, it is going to be a very, very long year.
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Promise
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice talky French film
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2012
Lots of lovely shots of Springtime in the French countryside help to make this film pleasant to watch. While I don't mind the French penchant for analyzing and dissecting every small event, and I actually like it, this film pushes the envelope a bit even for me.

The plot is uneventful...a young woman who teaches philosophy in high school meets a much
younger woman at a party where neither one wants to be. The younger one, Natasha, invites the older one, Jeanne, to stay at her father's apartment because Jeanne has lent her own apartment to a friend for the weekend. Conversation ensues....Natasha who doesn't have much to do with her own mother, takes instantly to the kind and calm Jeanne and tells her about her personal problems, especially her father, and her father's "evil" girlfriend, Eve. One thing leads to another and the whole group meets at another of Natasha's father's properties, this one in the country. Personalities clash and collide, romances happen and almost happen. And they all talk about it, on and on.

I am fascinated by French culture, how the people interact, what they talk about, what they wear, how they decorate their homes, what they eat, etc. As for the plot, there isn't much of one. The conversation really wasn't that interesting or profound, either. The cast is interesting to me. I enjoy the differences between French and American actors. Igor, Natasha's father is supposed to be wildly attractive and Jeanne very beautiful. Niether one would qualify in that way to most Americans, I think. But for me, that's part of the fascination I have for these films.

I can't say that I really enjoyed the film. It's not a lot of fun, the people are not that interesting or engaging, and it doesn't make me ponder the deeper questions of life. I doubt that I will ever watch it again but I liked it enough to make me want to see some of the others in this series. Rohmer fans will love it and some others with a high tolerance for low-action, talky French films.
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Michael Harbour
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful conversations about life.
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2011
Rohmer = talk, usually thoughtful talk; in this case very thoughtful talk, as the protagonist teaches philosophy and that occasionally becomes the topic of conversation. Love is also discussed. And life. And desires. People manipulate. People are manipulated. People realize they have been manipulated and respond with varying degrees of annoyance or anger. All much more interesting and engaging than it sounds.
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BigYalie
4.0 out of 5 stars A Clever Romantic Romp from Eric Rohmer
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2014
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This is one of French Nouvelle Vague director Eric Rohmer's finest films. Part of his four "Tales of the Seasons" series, Conte de Printemps (A Tale of Springtime) is a delightful character study as much as it is an exploration of familiar Rohmerian themes of confused relationships, miscommunication, and emotional manipulation. After a chance encounter at a party, Jeanne (Anne Tesseydre), a somewhat reserved and introspective high school philosophy teacher, develops a friendship with Natacha, a music student who has recently completed her "Bac" with high marks (16). Natacha reveals that she is bitterly opposed to the relationship between her divorced father Igor (Hugues Quester) and his arrogant, rather obnoxious twentyish girlfriend Eve (Eloïse Bennett). Sensing an opportunity to play matchmaker, Natacha invites Jeanne to spend the weekend at her father's country house where she hopes her father will also be staying. Unfortunately, Natacha's plot is undermined when Eve accompanies Igor. After Natacha deliberately provokes an argument with Eve, she becomes upset and decides to return to Paris after failing to persuade Igor that they should leave together. Natacha's boyfriend William drops by for a visit, conveniently allowing Natacha to leave with him for Paris,too, thus leaving Jeanne and Igor alone for the night.

Though Rohmer's screenplay for Conte de Printemps lacks the rigour and intensity of his classic works - Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's), Pauline a la Plage (Pauline at the Beach), Les nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris), or Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale), Conte de Printemps is a spirited romantic roundelay which will prove delightfully entertaining to viewers and especially to Nouvelle Vague enthusiasts.

Buyers will note that his English-subtitled UK DVD edition is far superior in image quality and packaging to the cheap, French-only version.
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L. Davidson
3.0 out of 5 stars Fontainebleu in Spring
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2007
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I was inspired to watch "A Tale of Springtime" after enjoying "A Winter's Tale", one of the other films in Eric Rohmer's "Tales of the Four Seasons" series. "A Tale of Springtime" does not quite reach the heights of "A Winter's Tale"; it's plot is insubstantial and the acting and characterisation are unexceptional. However it remains an interesting film nonetheless. The film is about a friendship that blossoms in the Parisian spring between a quiet philosophy teacher (calmness personified),Jeanne, and a music student Natacha who meet at a party. This film focuses mainly on their friendship , but Natacha's divorced father and his intelligent but temperamental young girlfriend both play significant roles as well as relationships come under strain and nerves get frayed during tense scenes at Natacha's father's second home at Fontainebleu.
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Bosley Pierson
4.0 out of 5 stars Not Anamorphic Widescreen.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2010
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Like 'A Winter's Tale' this release is actually 4:3 Letterbox and not 16:9 Anamorphic as listed on Amazon and the DVD cover. Otherwise, the film transfer and subtitling are very good.
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