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Rohmer Series Comes to Its End with Autumn Tale

A great conclusion to a great tribute

by Josh Kurp   |   Sep 2, 2010

Rohmer Series Comes to Its End with Autumn Tale

Autumn Tale (Photo: jonathanrosenbaum.com)

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Since mid-August, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has been showing the films of the great French new wave director, Éric Rohmer, who passed away earlier this year. Tonight and tomorrow, the series come to its conclusion with a screening of one of Rohmer’s finest films, 1998′s Autumn Tale.

Starring Béatrice Romand as a lonely, fortysomething winemaker and Marie Rivière and Alexia Portal as Romand’s friends who want to find her a husband, Autumn Tale is the final film of Rohmer’s “Tales of Four Seasons” series, along with films about, of course, spring, winter and summer. The director had a fondness for series, including “Six Moral Tales,” which went from 1963-1972, and “Comedies and Proverbs,” from 1981-1987.

Autumn Tale will be shown at the Walter Reade Theater tonight, September 2, at 6:45 p.m. and tomorrow, September 3, 8:45 p.m. Tickets can be purchased here, and for more information on Rohmer’s great career and influence, please click here.