La Boulangère de Monceau (1963)

Highly Recommended

France

Short Film

Original Title: La boulangère de Monceau

Writer/Director: Eric Rohmer

Cinematographers: Bruno Barbey, Jean-Michel Meurice

Cast: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Bertrand Tavernier

A handsome young student and rampant litterbug with an ever-expanding waistline enjoys a brief, flirtatious encounter with an attractive young woman; but when she subsequently disappears he very casually eases his way into the affections of a shy 18-year-old girl who works in a small bakery that he frequents on a daily basis; but when the original object of his desire reappears he is left with a moral quandary, in Rohmer’s entertaining and very perceptive look (with one eye on class relations) at the ethics of human coupling. Iain.Stott