Metrograph

Rohmer’s first feature-length entry in his “Six Moral Tales” series (following The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Suzanne’s Career) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a conscientious Catholic bachelor who is sorely tempted when he meets charming divorcée Françoise Fabian. Néstor Almendros’s black-and-white photography crystallizes the atmosphere of a damp Christmastime in mid-1960s central France while Rohmer exactingly depicts middle-class morals buckling under pressure as the sexual revolution arrives in the provinces.

Distributor: Janus Films