Original title: La boulangère de Monceau
Eric Rohmer/ French/ 1963/ 16mm/ black and white/ 23 minutes
The film was the first of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales (Contes moraux), which consisted of 2 shorts and 4 feature films.
The structure of the film is about a man who sees and falls in love with a woman he passes by in the street. But he doesn't know how to talk to her. When he was finally speaks to her. She disappears and he begins a daily search for her in the area that he has seen her in. During his search, he begins a habit of stopping in a bakery to buy a snack. Over time, a girl in the bakery becomes interested in him and he starts flirting with her, and, eventually, convinces her to go on a date with him. Before the date begins, however, he runs into the woman that he was originally searching for and is forced to choose.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Producer: Georges Derocles, Barbet Schroeder
Writter: Éric Rohmer
Cast: Barbet Schroeder, Bertrand Tavernier, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junk, Michel Mardore
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