With his last film, Eric Rohmer left the stage with an audacious flourish, infusing a fifth-century pastoral fantasy with a lifetime of stories, passions, and big ideas... The crucial moments are dialectical—a disputation between a faithful lover and a capering libertine, a druid's pagan proof of monotheism and the Trinity. As a result, it takes Rohmer a long time to reunite the original pair, but from love delayed, he asserts, music, painting, poetry, architecture, and religion are born.
Richard Brody
septembre 8, 2017