"Afternoon Love" is really dramatic! It is very different from the "Comedy and Proverbs" and "Four Seasons" series, and even different from the other five in "Six Tales". Bourgeois Frederick in "Afternoon Love" is a rare character who revives himself with free will. Directors such as Buñuel spared no effort to satirize Bourgeois in the 1970s, and "Afternoon Love" is undoubtedly one of the outliers. Chloe tried everything she could to get Frederick to submit, and the two of them fought each other. Just when Frederick was about to disarm and surrender, the act of undressing reminded him of the act of teasing a child with his head covered, he suddenly stopped the car, and at the moment when free will prevailed, he defeated the usual afternoon melancholy. , activated the enthusiasm for his wife. The Parisians in Rohmer's films are always firmly bound to the city in spirit, and so is Frederick. His views on marriage and love are in harmony with Paris. Parisians come and go, and he loves his wife. , just like the young women who love the city who come and go, the beauty of these women is an extension of the beauty of their wives, but not beyond the norm. At the same time, Frederick felt the passage of time in the repetition of people coming and going and similar love stories, and became anxious because of it, and fantasized about releasing the free will of others to satisfy himself, and finally found that he improved his own in the confrontation. Free will is the way to go.
Rohmer always places characters in oil paintings or art scenes, but adds realism to voice-overs or other scheduling, especially the sounds of bottles and jars in the restaurant downstairs as Frederick sits in bed and wrestles. It seems to be a reminder of the peach-colored events in this cramped space, as well as the broader daily life worth nostalgic.
Chloe's bathing and spiraling staircase are reminiscent of Rohmer's revered Hitchcock and his Psycho, Frederick's philosophy is that everyone plays their role (or as in Psycho) The fine points in the), that is, a mask. Taking the mask off of marriage of free will, Rohmer gave Bergman the comedic result he had been discussing and never got.
Ps I thought that on the 90th anniversary of Rohmer's birth, he had read all six moral stories, but I didn't expect this one. When people are middle-aged, watching "Afternoon Love" is more like panicking and talking about panic, empathizing with it.
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