{"id":18663,"date":"2026-06-24T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18663"},"modified":"2026-06-23T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T01:29:46","slug":"four-adventures-of-reinette-and-mirabelle-1987-eric-rohmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18663","title":{"rendered":"Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Eric Rohmer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two girls meet on a country road and spend four chapter-titled episodes together, this might as well have been named <em>Four More Moral Tales<\/em>.  M is a city ethnology student (Jessica Forde of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8428\">The Blind Owl<\/a><\/em> the same year).  R is a country painter (Jo\u00eblle Miquel of Lelouch movies).  M agrees to stay over another night after a passing truck ruins their experience of The Blue Hour (a moment before dawn when &#8220;you can feel nature holding its breath&#8221;, the exact opposite side of the day from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17187\">The Green Ray<\/a><\/em>).  So far I&#8217;m on R&#8217;s side, because she thinks a lot about outside bird sounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/reinette1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>2. After M stays in the country, she invites R to paint in the city.  Tyrannical waiter Philippe Laudenbach (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3004\">Mon oncle d\u2019Am\u00e9rique<\/a><\/em>) illustrates how much Europeans hate when you try to pay the tab with large bills.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/reinette2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>3. The most tedious episode &#8211; M sees a woman shoplifting, attempts to help her evade the police by moving her bag aside, but the criminal runs off leaving M with a bag full of pilfered groceries and an ensuing lecture about it from R, then she in turn lectures a subway scammer (<em>Green Ray<\/em> star Marie Rivi\u00e8re).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/reinette3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>4. R shows off her portfolio to an art dealer (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6179\">Perceval<\/a> himself, later evil boss of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17460\">The Empire<\/a><\/em>), M pretends to be a disinterested visitor who shames the dealer into paying more for a painting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/reinette4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two girls meet on a country road and spend four chapter-titled episodes together, this might as well have been named Four More Moral Tales. M is a city ethnology student (Jessica Forde of The Blind Owl the same year). R is a country painter (Jo\u00eblle Miquel of Lelouch movies). M agrees to stay over another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,28,34,553,302],"class_list":["post-18663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-eric-rohmer","tag-france","tag-moral-tales","tag-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18735,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18663\/revisions\/18735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}