July 25, 2024 • 10 mins
Éric Rohmer ends his famous "Tales of the Four Seasons" with "Autumn Tale". It's a French romance comedy about a woman who operates a vineyard, thinks about the idea of dating again and it focuses on the middle age folks, which is a bit different from the other season films. Magali's friends decide to take matters into their own hands and get matches for her. At this wedding party, it all goes down and it's an iconic scene itself. I love the film for it's rich and engaging screenplay and the actors who make these characters very real, especially when they conversate which is a huge strength that Rohmer. This film gives us insight to people who are older and wiser. We see a perspective that's almost too foreign for us especially if we dont match the same age. I can wacth this film all day and so should you.
I give it four out of four tokes.
#ericrohmer #filmreview #autumntale
I give it four out of four tokes.
#ericrohmer #filmreview #autumntale
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, and this is Morning Rio. If I see it,
I review it, hosted by Ray Salazar. Yours truly welcome
on this Thursday morning to them. I'm reviewing the film
Autumn Tail or an Autumn Tail. It's a French film,
a French romantic comedy drama film written and directed by
(00:22):
Eric Romer. It'sparred this some series of It's called the
Tales of the Four Seasons. This is the last one
of the whole four series. This film came out in
nineteen ninety eight in French. This film is called Conte
the Autumn. Oh if I said that right, Dom, if
(00:42):
you're listening, I'm sorry anyways, Man Eric Romer, if you
listen to my previous podcast episode of Eric Romers a
Tale of Summer, then you would know about this film. Now.
Eric Romer is a man who's about romance. He's a
(01:02):
man about dialogue, dialogue and dialogue. He loves the characters
to have conversations because there's a film where like as
far as the screenplay is concerned, like the screenplay itself,
when you have a conversation, it has to lead to somewhere, right,
it has to make something suspenseful and sometimes at the
(01:25):
same time, you have to, you know, stack the chips.
You know, you got to make everything go more towards
what the plot is revolving around with. And in this film,
it's like a masterclass of seeing a script come to life.
You know, this film has a beautiful screenplay. Man. It
(01:46):
deals with loneliness, it deals with ambition, and it deals
with like the what ifs and taking chances right, And
these are themes and Roamers work, especially in the Tales
of the Four Seasons, and honestly in romance genre films, right,
even even rom comms, like even American rom coms. There's
always that taking the chance, there's always that what if.
(02:11):
And obviously there's comedy. There's got to be some comedy,
you know, and the comedy is through the situation. Sometimes
it's through the situations and sometimes it's through a conversation.
Eric Rohmer loves conversations. And this film really goes about
the It goes about life, It goes about growing up,
like the characters here are in their middle ages. Man
(02:32):
and Real Quick credits, directed, written by Eric Rohmer, produced
by Francoise et Cheque Garay, starting or starring Beatrice Roman
Marie Vreri Didier, Sandre, Elaine Lebau, alection Port, Tom Stefan
(02:54):
Darmond and Aurella Okay Dude. Cinematography Diane Barrowther who was
great in this film. Edited by Mary Stephen. Production company
let Film do losange les Cinema and Running Up Cinema
dishurted by let Film de Lossange. This film came out
(03:15):
in September nineteen ninety eight at the Venice Film Festival.
It's not a long film. It's not a long film.
The point the plot is really straight to the point.
This chick, her name is mcgali. She's a winemaker and
also a widow. She doesn't really date. She engulfs herself
in vineyards, her vineyard where she makes wine and makes
(03:38):
good wine. Apparently, you know, that is her life at
least that's how she's trying to occupy her life. But
you know she wants a man. She needs a man.
And it's not like man, I want to bone this guy.
It's more like the along the lines of like I'm
at that age where I just want company, man, I
want somebody in my life. I want to share my life,
you know, And I love her character man, her character
(04:02):
is really unique, especially in the The Room and the
tales of the Four Seasons. Women actors, or rather I
say women characters, you know, like they're they're similar, you know,
they all have wants, needs and desires, and some of
them are you know, most of them are very just
(04:26):
closed minded, you know, like they're they just they just
stick to one thing and that's it, you know. But
mcgauley's different. You see a woman who, like you can
tell that she's wise or became wise in all her
years of life so far, you know, and I guess
she has a very she has a standerd you know
about how to you know, to be in a relationship.
(04:49):
You know, she she wants a certain guy, you know,
she just doesn't want some any type of guy. And
two of her friends decide, you know what, let's let's match.
Let's mattro with somebody. And this is in the late nineties,
by the way, there's no Twitter, there's no Instagram, there's
barely any email. But there's no such thing as like
(05:11):
you know, apps to find somebody. You know, it was
really just by going out and seeing somebody or in
this case, putting an ad on the newspaper, which worked
which Magali doesn't know about. Either way, these two women
separately concoct an idea to you know, to match up
(05:33):
Magali with a man, and one of the friends thinks
that this one older dude would do it, and the
other friend thinks like, hey, this one guy, Like I
think I think it's the one man and the guy
who they meet at a cafe. You can just tell
that it was going to be a swing and it
(05:55):
all leads to this party, this wedding party. Actually it's
the wedding, right, It to a wedding, and I'm not
gonna say more about it. The meeting between mcgauley and
Gerald Gerard who Gerald? Sorry? Or girl Gerald? The meeting
between mcgauley and Gerald Man is I feel like one
(06:16):
of the most iconic scenes of the film because everything
kind of leads up to that point, the meeting, like
are they gonna hit it off? And it's funny because
it's a movie, right, Like it's not predictable, you know,
it really isn't predictable, but you kind of have that
sense like you know this is gonna happen, you know,
But then again, when you see it the event unfold,
(06:40):
you're like, whoa we are taking for a little twist,
you know, and I love that Roamer can do that.
He was able to write a like two scenes in
the wedding party, you know, act where it's very possible
that this film will not end in that ending that
(07:00):
we think it's gonna supposed to end, you know, which
is like obviously a very hopeful and possibly a happy ending,
you know. And when I saw mcgully and Jerome, man,
it really I don't know, Man, it just made me
smile so so big because it's like, dude, like they're
(07:21):
beating and then they're eating it off. And even the
way the actors like behave like, you know, towards each other.
It's so like real, there's no other word to put it. Man,
it feels so real and so in a weird way
like youthful. You know, it shows like youth you know,
(07:44):
it shows a little blast of it, you know, because
you know, these people are in their middle ages. They
talk about it, they contemplate about it, they're at peace
with it. They you know, as for the most part,
they don't have any regrets about their life really, you know,
like they've all experienced like stuff in their life, you know,
especially related to relationships. And it's funny that Roma was
(08:06):
able to bring this main topic and revolve all kinds
of little instances that like help put discourse on the
topic of loneliness and romance and like relationships and all
that stuff. Man, I suggest you watch this film, man,
if you're a rom com person, if you like comedies,
(08:28):
or if you like romance films. Man, this is the
One Man. And yeah, it's in French, and I love it.
You know, I don't care if it is in French.
You know, the subtitles work. And I love how these
characters like engage with each other. You can tell that
there's a good sense of passion in their words, you know,
(08:50):
and what they talk about freaking French Man, they're passionate, man,
They really are passionate about the things that they desire for,
you know, in this case, you know people you know,
a loved one, a hopeful loved one. I gotta say
four out of four toques. It's a good film, man.
(09:14):
I like it a lot. It's very intelligent, man, Like
you would think that a film that doesn't really have
action or I mean it barely has any melodrama, but
it's more about scheming that's the thing, like will the
scheming work, the process of the schemings and getting to
know the characters better as they talk to each other.
(09:35):
You know, it's kind of weird how this film kind
of works. The writing is very creative, even like in
the most basic sense. I mean it's not a basic film,
but it is a basic plot, and when it unfolds,
it works. I like Eric Romer man, I wish I
could have met the guy man. Too bad he's not around.
(09:56):
But hey man, this is my way of celebrating in
autumn tail following me on Morning Shot Films IGI YouTube.
Check out the website Morning Shot Films dot coo a
lot of stuff there and on to the next one.
Thank you,
Good morning, and this is Morning Rio. If I see it,
I review it, hosted by Ray Salazar. Yours truly welcome
on this Thursday morning to them. I'm reviewing the film
Autumn Tail or an Autumn Tail. It's a French film,
a French romantic comedy drama film written and directed by
(00:22):
Eric Romer. It'sparred this some series of It's called the
Tales of the Four Seasons. This is the last one
of the whole four series. This film came out in
nineteen ninety eight in French. This film is called Conte
the Autumn. Oh if I said that right, Dom, if
(00:42):
you're listening, I'm sorry anyways, Man Eric Romer, if you
listen to my previous podcast episode of Eric Romers a
Tale of Summer, then you would know about this film. Now.
Eric Romer is a man who's about romance. He's a
(01:02):
man about dialogue, dialogue and dialogue. He loves the characters
to have conversations because there's a film where like as
far as the screenplay is concerned, like the screenplay itself,
when you have a conversation, it has to lead to somewhere, right,
it has to make something suspenseful and sometimes at the
(01:25):
same time, you have to, you know, stack the chips.
You know, you got to make everything go more towards
what the plot is revolving around with. And in this film,
it's like a masterclass of seeing a script come to life.
You know, this film has a beautiful screenplay. Man. It
(01:46):
deals with loneliness, it deals with ambition, and it deals
with like the what ifs and taking chances right, And
these are themes and Roamers work, especially in the Tales
of the Four Seasons, and honestly in romance genre films, right,
even even rom comms, like even American rom coms. There's
always that taking the chance, there's always that what if.
(02:11):
And obviously there's comedy. There's got to be some comedy,
you know, and the comedy is through the situation. Sometimes
it's through the situations and sometimes it's through a conversation.
Eric Rohmer loves conversations. And this film really goes about
the It goes about life, It goes about growing up,
like the characters here are in their middle ages. Man
(02:32):
and Real Quick credits, directed, written by Eric Rohmer, produced
by Francoise et Cheque Garay, starting or starring Beatrice Roman
Marie Vreri Didier, Sandre, Elaine Lebau, alection Port, Tom Stefan
(02:54):
Darmond and Aurella Okay Dude. Cinematography Diane Barrowther who was
great in this film. Edited by Mary Stephen. Production company
let Film do losange les Cinema and Running Up Cinema
dishurted by let Film de Lossange. This film came out
(03:15):
in September nineteen ninety eight at the Venice Film Festival.
It's not a long film. It's not a long film.
The point the plot is really straight to the point.
This chick, her name is mcgali. She's a winemaker and
also a widow. She doesn't really date. She engulfs herself
in vineyards, her vineyard where she makes wine and makes
(03:38):
good wine. Apparently, you know, that is her life at
least that's how she's trying to occupy her life. But
you know she wants a man. She needs a man.
And it's not like man, I want to bone this guy.
It's more like the along the lines of like I'm
at that age where I just want company, man, I
want somebody in my life. I want to share my life,
you know, And I love her character man, her character
(04:02):
is really unique, especially in the The Room and the
tales of the Four Seasons. Women actors, or rather I
say women characters, you know, like they're they're similar, you know,
they all have wants, needs and desires, and some of
them are you know, most of them are very just
(04:26):
closed minded, you know, like they're they just they just
stick to one thing and that's it, you know. But
mcgauley's different. You see a woman who, like you can
tell that she's wise or became wise in all her
years of life so far, you know, and I guess
she has a very she has a standerd you know
about how to you know, to be in a relationship.
(04:49):
You know, she she wants a certain guy, you know,
she just doesn't want some any type of guy. And
two of her friends decide, you know what, let's let's match.
Let's mattro with somebody. And this is in the late nineties,
by the way, there's no Twitter, there's no Instagram, there's
barely any email. But there's no such thing as like
(05:11):
you know, apps to find somebody. You know, it was
really just by going out and seeing somebody or in
this case, putting an ad on the newspaper, which worked
which Magali doesn't know about. Either way, these two women
separately concoct an idea to you know, to match up
(05:33):
Magali with a man, and one of the friends thinks
that this one older dude would do it, and the
other friend thinks like, hey, this one guy, Like I
think I think it's the one man and the guy
who they meet at a cafe. You can just tell
that it was going to be a swing and it
(05:55):
all leads to this party, this wedding party. Actually it's
the wedding, right, It to a wedding, and I'm not
gonna say more about it. The meeting between mcgauley and
Gerald Gerard who Gerald? Sorry? Or girl Gerald? The meeting
between mcgauley and Gerald Man is I feel like one
(06:16):
of the most iconic scenes of the film because everything
kind of leads up to that point, the meeting, like
are they gonna hit it off? And it's funny because
it's a movie, right, Like it's not predictable, you know,
it really isn't predictable, but you kind of have that
sense like you know this is gonna happen, you know,
But then again, when you see it the event unfold,
(06:40):
you're like, whoa we are taking for a little twist,
you know, and I love that Roamer can do that.
He was able to write a like two scenes in
the wedding party, you know, act where it's very possible
that this film will not end in that ending that
(07:00):
we think it's gonna supposed to end, you know, which
is like obviously a very hopeful and possibly a happy ending,
you know. And when I saw mcgully and Jerome, man,
it really I don't know, Man, it just made me
smile so so big because it's like, dude, like they're
(07:21):
beating and then they're eating it off. And even the
way the actors like behave like, you know, towards each other.
It's so like real, there's no other word to put it. Man,
it feels so real and so in a weird way
like youthful. You know, it shows like youth you know,
(07:44):
it shows a little blast of it, you know, because
you know, these people are in their middle ages. They
talk about it, they contemplate about it, they're at peace
with it. They you know, as for the most part,
they don't have any regrets about their life really, you know,
like they've all experienced like stuff in their life, you know,
especially related to relationships. And it's funny that Roma was
(08:06):
able to bring this main topic and revolve all kinds
of little instances that like help put discourse on the
topic of loneliness and romance and like relationships and all
that stuff. Man, I suggest you watch this film, man,
if you're a rom com person, if you like comedies,
(08:28):
or if you like romance films. Man, this is the
One Man. And yeah, it's in French, and I love it.
You know, I don't care if it is in French.
You know, the subtitles work. And I love how these
characters like engage with each other. You can tell that
there's a good sense of passion in their words, you know,
(08:50):
and what they talk about freaking French Man, they're passionate, man,
They really are passionate about the things that they desire for,
you know, in this case, you know people you know,
a loved one, a hopeful loved one. I gotta say
four out of four toques. It's a good film, man.
(09:14):
I like it a lot. It's very intelligent, man, Like
you would think that a film that doesn't really have
action or I mean it barely has any melodrama, but
it's more about scheming that's the thing, like will the
scheming work, the process of the schemings and getting to
know the characters better as they talk to each other.
(09:35):
You know, it's kind of weird how this film kind
of works. The writing is very creative, even like in
the most basic sense. I mean it's not a basic film,
but it is a basic plot, and when it unfolds,
it works. I like Eric Romer man, I wish I
could have met the guy man. Too bad he's not around.
(09:56):
But hey man, this is my way of celebrating in
autumn tail following me on Morning Shot Films IGI YouTube.
Check out the website Morning Shot Films dot coo a
lot of stuff there and on to the next one.
Thank you,
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