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Amour-apres-midi.jpgL'Amour l'apres-midi (Love in the Afternoon) 1972; French

 This French language offering by master filmmaker Éric Rohmer is another one of those intelligent movies that questions love, sex and platonic relationships between man and woman. It is done in non-melodramatic and judgmental fashion.
Frédéric, a successful lawyer, with an English language lecturer wife, a daughter and another child on the way appears like a bourgeoisie who had his life all paved in front of him. 

He likes women watching and reminisce the carefree days before his marriage. He is just a fantasiser and is a basically monogamous and doting father.

One day, a female friend from his past, Chloé, an ex-girlfriend of his best friend appears in his office. She seems like an ambitionless, living for the moment, happy go lucky kind of a girl who was fun material rather than wife material. She goes in and out of jobs, disappearing and emerging like a plunging hippopotamus every now and then; sometimes happy, sometimes in dire straits needing help. He helps her to settle in a new place and new job.

Their relationship becomes stronger. He lies to his wife, sometimes to be with Chloé on some afternoons (hence the title). It was initially nothing romantic, just that he could relate some things better to her than his wife.
The carefree Chloé kept tempting him to indulge in an extramarital affair even though she was not the marrying kind. At his weak moment, Frédéric almost gave himself to temptation until he saw himself in the mirror and remembered a time horsing around with his family. He came to his senses and returned immediately to his wife to mend this relationship with his wife and family.

This movie is the sixth and final offering by Éric Rohmer on moral tales. A good show with practical issues that people in modern societies have to endure in everyday living. In a contemporary thinking society, the question of morality is blurred by the ability to justify actions and critical thinking. The community cannot impose a uniform code of living by creating the fear of God and damnation on them to toe the line.


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