Fire eventyr med Reinette og Mirabelle

A subtle, understated film by Eric Rohmer.

Fire eventyr… unfolds in summer, with the light, gently swaying summer mood that characterizes many of Rohmer’s films. Mirabelle, a young woman from Paris, spends her holiday in the countryside, where she meets Reinette. They become good friends, and as the holiday draws to a close, Mirabelle invites Reinette to share her apartment in Paris. Reinette accepts, and the film follows their life in Paris, where Reinette, among other things, tries her hand at painting.

The film has many beautiful moments — such as when the two young women get up at dawn to experience «the blue hour», when night turns into day.

Conversation with Dag Johan Haugerud

Before the screening on Tuesday 1. desember, director Dag Johan Haugerud will talk about his relationship with Eric Rohmer. The conversation is presented in collaboration with Fragment[et] - tidsskrift for kulturfilosofisk analyse. (https://www.fragmentet.no/)

Their exchanges, sharp as garlic and sweet as smiles, are as naive as they are knowing.

Washington Post

Part of Mr. Rohmer’s genius, of course, is that he keeps creating such lives - ordinary and rarefied at once, almost but not quite beyond our grasp. No one actually lives in the world of a Rohmer film, where the name of a specific television show or rock star never mars a character’s timeless dialogue, where his characters’ heightened sense of everyday life seems absolutely adventurous. But the deep lure of his work is the suggestion that it is possible to be as articulate or as witty or even as extravagantly morose as a Rohmer character, to stumble across those undramatic moments of perfect grace on some beach or in some meadow.

Caryn James, The New York Times