Autumn Tale Movie Review 1998

Middleaged, widowed winegrower Magali (Romand) is lonely now that her children are grown, so her best friend Isabelle (Riviere) secretly places a personal ad and decides to meet the respondents herself in order to find someone suitable for her friend. Isabelle decides saleman Gerald (Libolt) is a likely prospect and schemes to introduce them. Meanwhile, Rosine (Portal), the live-wire girlfriend of Magali's son Leo (Darmon), thinks that her older philosophy professor (and ex-lover), Etienne (Sandre), might be a match. Magali is simply mortified by the entire situation. The fourth film in Rohmer's "Tales of the Four Seasons." French with subtitles.

Distribution

USA Home Entertainment, 1 W. Forest, Englewood, NJ 07631-4004, Phone: (201)871-1000, URL: http://www.polygram-us.com

Available on VHS
Running time 110 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Female Bonding, Growing Older, Only the Lonely

Screenplay

Eric Rohmer

Cast

Beatrice Romand, Marie Riviere, Alexia Portal, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre, Stephane Darmon

Cinematography

Diane Baratier

Director

Eric Rohmer

Music

Claude Marti

Producer

Margaret Menegoz, Les Films du Losange, La Sept Cinema (France), October Films

Awards

Natl. Soc. Film Critics 1999: Foreign Film.