Sep 01, 1972
97 min
Full-HD

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.

Category

Drama Romance

Country

France

Companies

Les Films du Losange

Bernard Verley

Frédéric

Zouzou

Chloé

Françoise Verley

Hélène

Daniel Ceccaldi

Gérard

Malvina Penne

Fabienne

Elisabeth Ferrier

Martine

Tina Michelino

The Passenger

Jean-Louis Livi

The Colleague

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