The Bakery Girl of Monceau

1963 [FRENCH]

Action / Romance

7
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 5833 5.8K

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Plot summary

Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.

Director

Éric Rohmer Photo
Éric Rohmer

Top cast

Michèle Girardon Photo
Michèle Girardon as Sylvie
Barbet Schroeder Photo
Barbet Schroeder as Young Man / Narrator
Bertrand Tavernier Photo
Bertrand Tavernier as Young Man / Narrator
Michel Mardore Photo
Michel Mardore as (uncredited)
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
211.61 MB
988*720
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
12 hr 23 min
Seeds 1
392.82 MB
1472*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
12 hr 23 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by alansabljakovic-39044 8 / 10

Rohmer's 6 moral tales > The 10 Commandments of God

Wonderful start for Rohmer's 6 moral tales which defined French New Wave. This is honestly one of his best movies, absolutely magnificent piece of art!
Reviewed by framptonhollis 7 / 10

Charming Romantic Short

"The Bakery Girl of Monceau" is the first film in Eric Rohmer's great "Six Moral Tales" film series. While it doesn't match the excellence of later films in the series , it is still a great and charming short film that serves as a nice preview to what the film series would eventually become.The film stars future filmmaker Barbet Schroeder (who went on to direct films such as "Maîtresse", "General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait", and "Koko: A Talking Gorilla") as a young law student who seems to fall in love with a young woman at a bakery-but not really. It's kind of a complicated situation in a very simple yet somewhat complicate short film. Really, you have to experience it for yourself and you'll understand what I mean by it being utterly simple yet overly complex at the same time.In the end, Rohmer offers us a charming, witty, and romantic short film that is definitely one of the best short films I've seen in a long time, even if it doesn't offer a lot to write a review about.
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