While waiting for his girlfriend to arrive in a small resort town in the South of France Gaspard meets Margot (Amanda Langlet) a cute young woman who works as a waitress. They develop a good friendship and spend a week talking and walking all around the beautiful coasts and beaches of Britanny, France. Soon, though, he hooks up with Solene (Gwenaelle Simon) a beautiful brunette whom he notices at a party. She provides more of a sexual possibility but before he can get anything going she leaves for a few days. Then Lena (Aurelia Nolin), his lithe and blonde girlfriend, arrives but she is acting strange and noncommittal.

Pretty soon he has to make that tough decision that all young men wish they could make: Should he stay with his old girlfriend, try to get something going with the one who he gets along with so well or go to the one who he is most strongly sexually attracted to? Fortunately, Gaspard is young and, at the very least, he can retreat into his hobby of playing and writing music before he makes his decision.

Eric Rohmer films are an acquired taste because, unlike many Hollywood comedy-romances, they feature engaging moral dilemmas, fully developed characters, feature a lot of talking and they slowly develop their premise. And since the scripts are so perceptive and sophisticated they ultimately reward the patient viewer.

This film made in 1996 was the third film in Rohmer's 'Tales of Four Seasons' series and while it is not in the class of his best work (films like "My Night at Mauds", "Claire's Knee" and "Summer") it is definitely characteristic of them as well as most every film he has made in his almost 40 year career.

Video:
The film is presented in its original full screen aspect ratio of 1:33 to 1 and the picture quality is very good although it does display some compression artifact especially when there are quick panning shots. Almost every shot is a master shot with a lot of depth-of-field in the background and it all looks very good. The colors are strong and the images are very sharp, particularly on the beautiful coastal locations in and around Britanny.

Audio:
The sound is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 and it sounds fine. There is no soundtrack music -- although the main characters do sing sometimes -- and there is little sound other than the dialogue between the characters and the usual background sounds of crowded beaches.

Extras:
The only extras are production credits, filmographies, a DVD ROM link to a newsletter subscription and the ability to control the subtitles control. There is no chapter list, no essay or no production credits on the inside flap. The best feature is that the 16 chapters correspond nicely with the intertitle chapter stops in the movie. The movie is 113 minutes long -- although the cover jacket says 133 minutes.

Overall:
This is a very good film and a pretty good-looking DVD. If you are an Eric Rohmer fan it shouldn't be missed. If you don't know anything about Rohmer and you're patient enough to watch films that are talky, intellectual and realistic (or what critics call 'very French') then this is more than worth a look.