Synopsis
“The
La Fontaine proverb that begins this film asks, “Who has not built castles in Spain?” and the film follows with a cautionary tale about the dangers of hatching elaborate and improbable schemes.
Rohmer favorite
Béatrice Romand plays a young woman bent not on playing the field but rather waiting to meet the ideal man for marriage. In typical
Rohmerian fashion, her resolute goal-orientation makes her alternately admirable and insufferable as she wills herself into awkward courtship and miscommunication. Ultimately,
Rohmer’s heroine finds herself in a whirlwind of changing mores, the wake that followed the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s and the crossroads that recurs as the setting for the entire cycle of “
Comedies and Proverbs.”" – Harvard Film Archive