This film saved Eric Rohmer in my book. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Pauline At The Beach is a feast of talking heads and more. |, January 1, 2000 Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. Marion is waiting out her divorce and, along the shore, runs into her old flame Pierre (Pascal Greggory). Despite the good performances, the characters lack warmth and interest. All Critics (13) | Top Critics (2) Pauline observes and critiques these visions (without being too judgmental) and also forms her own ideas of how to love. Les Films du Losange, The awful truth about relationships and love is revealed to her, albeit in a somewhat humourous way. The movie is exactly that, Pauline at the beach. Sign up here. Regal |, May 30, 2019 Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. Don't have an account? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. French bedroom farce stripped down to its essentials. Pauline is quite resilient and is at first influenced to some degree by her cousin and her male friends. Coming Soon. One of my favorite films. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2019. She is a young woman on the verge of adulthood who has been left in the care of her older, more worldly cousin still young but full of contradictory ideas about love and romance. Just confirm how you got your ticket. The movie is exactly that, Pauline at the beach. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy | Rating: 4/5, August 20, 2001 |, August 14, 2020 Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019. The characters Pauline encounters have different ideas of what it means to love and relate to others. Through the course of the story we see Pauline become skeptical and then rejecting this world of selfishness and trivial intrigue. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! There should be a law against this sort of thing but thank God they haven't figured that out in forty years. Coming Soon. All rights reserved. Except for the blonde star. Pierre believes in true, lasting love, Marion in love at first sight, Henri in having as many women as come his way, and Pauline just wants to find someone she can know, and then love.
It seems to lead somewhere, to a conflict we don't quite foresee, and then delivers it in a purely cinematic manner. Another masterpiece from French director Eric Rohmes about the different sides of love. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Now I'm old and I'm not that impressed. All rights reserved.Pauline à la Plage's charm is the curiosity it sparks. I originally saw this film in 1982 (inspired to go see it by Siskel & Ebert's TV review), and it instantly became one of my most favorite films. I imagine that in most video purchases the customer is sold on the film or movie and has decided to buy it, what's really important to know is the quality of the recording. Another masterpiece from French director Eric Rohmes about the different sides of love. Then, in a narrative twist so well introduced that at the moment I didn't grasp the weight it would have in the rest of the story, an unfortunate discovery leads to misunderstandings that put everyone's "love" under scrutiny.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019. and ultimately countercultural too. A pretty little toy of a movie, one of those elegantly spare contraptions you can watch for hours without discovering its mechanism. and the Terms and Policies, Whether walking by the shore, going knee-deep into the waves, sunbathing, sneaking into each other's houses through the window, laying in bed in the morning, riding bicycles around town, the camera follows each character under a beautiful yellow light. Pauline observes the Henri-Marion-Pierre love triangle from a distance, at times with concern and at times with some disgust, until she meets a boy at the beach that puts her mind on her own romantic education. |, July 25, 2005 Don't have an account? The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. This page works best with JavaScript. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie.