A Tale of Winter
Drama, Romance
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1992
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Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
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Runtime:
114 min
Release date:
29 Jan 1992
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$213,687
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Rohmer's style, over the years, has become so easy and natural that, at its best, his work never seems like fabricated drama... While this low-budget Tale of Winter may seem simple, it's a masterly simplicity.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Dec 2014
fresh:
As usual, Rohmer works magic with his generally unfamiliar casts, drawing from them more they perhaps realize they're yielding.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Dec 2014
fresh:
Rohmer has become such a master of his chosen classic genre -- the crystalline philosophical tale of character and romantic choice -- that this is a nearly perfect work, in performance as well as execution.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
15 Dec 2014
fresh:
With A Tale of Springtime and A Tale of Winter, Eric Rohmer has given us a pair of wonderful motion pictures... I wonder what Summer and Autumn will bring.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
30 Oct 2006
fresh:
It has, as ever, enormous compassion, wit and insight, and its ending is exquisitely affecting.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006