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L’Amour l’après-midi
FRANCE · 1972

L’Amour l’après-midi

Eric Rohmer
infidelity bourgeois life temptation marriage daydreaming
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Synopsis

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 eventual

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