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With: Charlotte Véry, Frédéric van den Driessche, Michel Voletti, Hervé Furic, Ava Loraschi, Christiane Desbois
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Written by: Éric Rohmer
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Directed by: Éric Rohmer
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Language: French, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 114
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Date: 10/02/1992
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Cold Shoulder
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
The second in Éric Rohmer's "Tales of the Four Seasons" series, A Tale of Winter (Conte d'hiver) is a beauty, a warm blanket in the snowy cold. (It takes place over Christmas and New Year's.) It centers on Félicie (Charlotte Véry), who is something of a flibbertigibbet, not unlike Marie Rivière's Delphine in The Green Ray. (Rivière appears here in a small role.) Félicie falls in love with Charles (Frédéric van den Driessche) and accidentally gives him her wrong address; they lose touch. Five years later, Félicie has a small daughter and is half-heartedly dating two men, the bookish Loïc (Hervé Furic) and the older hairdresser Maxence (Michel Voletti), all the time hoping for a miracle in finding Charles again. Impulsively she agrees to move to Nevers with Maxence to work in his new salon. That doesn't work out so she returns to Loïc, flirting with him while steadfastly asserting that she's not in love with him. During the climax, they attend a play of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, which sums up the movie's themes and choices in a neatly playful way.
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