Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris)

Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Full Moon in Paris) (1984)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (9 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (452 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 loses his soul. He who has two… More

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R, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
Eric Rohmer
Written By
Eric Rohmer
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 7, 1984 Wide
On DVD
Jun 8, 1999
Media Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • 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.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    Full Moon in Paris, the fourth in the series, is bleaker than any of its predecessors.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    One of the better dating scene relationship films I've seen.

  • 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

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Pascale Ogier stars as the quintessential Rohmer woman, loved and admired by the men around her but desperately confused about the meaning of love.

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  • Anthony L


    For as much as I didn't find Les Nuits de la pleine lune initially satisfying, the conclusion made it well worth while. I enjoyed Paris and its suburbs circa 84', I actually first visited Paris in 84 and remember it fondly, there were plenty of reminders here to get me all… More

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