The 1996 film A Summer's Tale by French New Wave writer-director Eric Rohmer is nothing short of extraordinary.
As if a love triangle isn't already enough, this story of a love rectangle is sure to play with your hopeless romantic expectations and dance around your superficial understandings of love and friendship.
The beauty of Rohmer's coloration and aesthetic goes without saying. The true focal point of the film, in my opinion, is the writing.
This film sustains the idea that friendship, in particular cases, is often more serious than love. You are to hold them up at a distance, like a good painting. If you spend too much time trying to get up close and personal, you corrupt the intended frame of view.
Friendship is leisurely. Perhaps nothing more than a habit of coincidence.
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