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Pauline at the Beach
Pauline at the Beach
7.8
/10
12,242 Ratings

PAULINE AT THE BEACH

Pauline à la plage

Directed by Éric Rohmer
France, 1983
Drama, Romance, Comedy

Synopsis

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Normandy. There, the two navigate the men around them. Marion runs into her old flame Pierre and attempts to set him up with Pauline, while she starts a liaison with middle-aged Henri.

Synopsis

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Normandy. There, the two navigate the men around them. Marion runs into her old flame Pierre and attempts to set him up with Pauline, while she starts a liaison with middle-aged Henri.

Our take

A quintessential summer film from the French New Wave’s resident sexual moralist, Éric Rohmer. A sun-bathed romance set at a resort town in 1980s Normandy, Rohmer’s film lovingly evokes the extended feeling of summertime: the touch of skin, the heat of the sun—and oh, such erotic possibilities!