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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Rohmer turns a single evening of conversation into a precise, quietly suspenseful examination of desire, self-image and moral compromise, with the same light touch toward a protagonist’s private rationalizations.
02
Why this pick
Its drifting summer encounters and hesitant romantic choices share the supple, dialogue-led rhythm of Love in the Afternoon, observing indecision with warmth rather than judgment.
03
Why this pick
A deceptively simple holiday story that finds emotional intensity in small social encounters, awkward solitude and the gap between what someone says they want and what they feel.
04
Why this pick
Another exquisitely controlled Moral Tale, where a man’s seemingly trivial fixation becomes a witty, unsettling study of desire, intellectual alibis and self-deception.
05
Why this pick
Its mature friendships and discreet matchmaking carry Rohmer’s gift for making conversation, romantic projection and tiny changes of intention feel consequential and alive.
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01 / THE STORY
Frédéric (Bernard Verley), the young and successful partner in a business, is happily married to Hélène (Françoise Verley), an English teacher, and father to one child with another on the way. Still, something eats away at him. While going through his day, Frédéric begins to ponder the times before he was married, when he was free to be with any woman he wanted and could feel the deep satisfaction of anticipation while he chased them. At one point in the film, he has an elaborate fantasy where he possesses a magical amulet that causes all women to bow to his will (the sequence features actresses from previous "Moral Tales"). These thoughts do not distress Frédéric though, as he sees these ideas as a reflection of how true his love to his wife is.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Frédéric
Gérard
l'étudiant
un personnage du rêve
un personnage du rêve
