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Love in the Afternoon

L'Amour l'après-midi

Directed by Éric Rohmer
1972•1h 37m•R•★ 7.3
Comedy / Drama / Romance

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A happily married Paris business executive who spends his afternoons fantasizing about the attractive women passing by on the boulevards finds his bourgeois marital fidelity tested when the bohemian, free-spirited former mistress of a friend appears in his office and begins dropping in for afternoon visits, culminating in a fateful dressing-room moment of decision. Éric Rohmer's crowning Sixth Moral Tale starring Bernard Verley and Zouzou.

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Éric Rohmer

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DirectorÉric Rohmer
WriterÉric Rohmer
CinematographyNéstor Almendros
MusicArié Dzierlatka
Principal Cast
Bernard Verley
Bernard VerleyFrédéric
Zouzou
ZouzouChloé
Françoise Verley
Françoise VerleyHélène
Daniel Ceccaldi
Daniel CeccaldiGérard
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Malvina PenneFabienne
EF
Elisabeth FerrierMartine
TM
Tina MichelinoThe Passenger
Jean-Louis Livi
Jean-Louis LiviThe Colleague

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Runtime1h 37m (97 mins)

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DirectorÉric Rohmer
LanguagesFrench
CountryFR
StudioLes Films du Losange
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