Love in the Afternoon poster
Screenplay Éric Rohmer
Director Éric Rohmer

Love in the Afternoon

Original Title: L'Amour l'après-midi

Release Date: 1972-09-01

Duration: 97 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Marie-Christine Barrault
    Dream Sequence
  • Claude Bertrand
    The Male Student
  • Françoise Fabian
    Dream Sequence
  • Bernard Verley
    Frédéric
  • Zouzou
    Chloé
  • Béatrice Romand
    Dream Sequence
  • Aurora Cornu
    Dream Sequence
  • Laurence de Monaghan
    Dream Sequence
  • Haydée Politoff
    Dream Sequence
  • Daniel Ceccaldi
    Gérard