Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris) (1984)
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100% of critics liked it
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76% of users liked it
(466 ratings)
A young woman looks for the true meaning of love and learns the truth of the old saw, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone," in this fourth installment in Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The story opens with the proverb, "He who has two women… More A young woman looks for the true meaning of love and learns the truth of the old saw, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone," in this fourth installment in Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The story opens with the proverb, "He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two houses loses his mind," and centers on Louise (Pascale Ogier) and her live-in lover, Remi (Tchéky Karyo), a Paris architect and noted tennis player. Their relationship hits an important juncture when Remi decides he wants to get married, while Louise wants to continue living the life of a party girl. Eventually, Louise decides to escape her lover's oppression and become intimate with loneliness, so she moves to Paris where she makes complex plans to have her cake and eat it too. Unfortunately, things don't go exactly as planned as she finds herself the object of an amiable writer's affections. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Directed By
- Eric Rohmer
- Written By
- Eric Rohmer
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 7, 1984 Wide
- Studio
- Media Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Geoff Andrew, Time Out
It's as elegant and incisive a comedy of manners as ever from Rohmer.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Full Moon in Paris ranks with the very best of Rohmer. Enlightened self-deception is the system in this tiny universe, and it's invigoratingly comic to behold.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Full Moon in Paris, the fourth in the series, is bleaker than any of its predecessors.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
One of the better dating scene relationship films I've seen.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
Out of this Lubitschian tangle Rohmer finds Le Beau Mariage in reverse, and couches it in terms of pure rhythm still unappreciated by bookish critics
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Cast
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Pascale Ogier
as Louise
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Fabrice Luchini
as Octave
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Tcheky Karyo
as Remi
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Christian Vadim
as Bastien
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Virginie Thévenet
as Camille
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Anne-Séverine Liotard
as Marianne
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Mathieu Schiffman
as Louise's decorator friend
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Laszlo Szabo
as Painter at cafe
