Synopsis
The third film in
Rohmer’s sublime
Four Seasons cycle reunites the veteran auteur with
Amanda Langlet, the sun-kissed teen heroine of
Pauline at the Beach, for another beguiling, beachside tale of jeune amour. Gaspard (
Melvil Poupaud), one of the few male protagonists in late
Rohmer, is a young, handsome, completely self-absorbed musician holidaying in Brittany for the summer. Awaiting the arrival of his not-quite girlfriend Léna – more a “habit of coincidence,” he clarifies – Gaspard begins courting the affections of sweet, smart, ethnology student Margot (a never-better Langlet), and then Margot's smitten friend. Léna, of course, shows up, pushing the moppy-haired romancer to choose between his three surprise suitresses. Repartee, per usual in
Rohmer, only deflects from the emotional honesty so needed of the snowballing situation.
