moonrocks152 A thoroughly self-absorbed French boy wonders why three lovely women aren't quite meeting all of his expectations. Spend an afternoon with him and you won't be wondering so much.The atmosphere and scenery were beautiful, so was the acting. Eric Rohmer has made some very sweet and intimate films but in this one he over analyzed young love until my head hurt. It was a bit too much.If you allow yourself, you can pretend that all of Gaspard's dilemmas were interesting and profound, but they weren't.Advice to Gaspard - Relax. Think about someone other than yourself for, I don't know, maybe five minutes. You'll see that things will work out just fine.

Armand Summer. A boy. Three girls. And some small decisions. A delicate vision about the form of gesture. About self-definition. And about the things who makes a way more than intention. It may be understand as love-story, comedy or french movie who describe nothing with a rain of words. But, in fact, is only a mirror. An insignificant question about life as spider web. And definition of love's nuances. At first sight, the problems presented are parts of a single age. In fact, they are only roots. Minimalistic and refreshing, as a summer morning, it is a good occasion to define personal word and causes of decisions. Slowly, at leisure. A phone call may be the perfect answer.

Andres Salama One of Rohmer's best. Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) takes a month long vacation to a beach in Normandy, waiting for his more or less official girlfriend, the somewhat snotty Lena (Aurelia Nolin), to come. While waiting for her, he befriends the waitress and aspiring anthropologist Margot (Rohmer regular Amanda Langlet). Eventually, a relationship between the two develops, which seems to consists almost exclusively of long talks in the beach. But this is not all, since he soon also meets the somewhat promiscuous (but "principled") Solene (Gwaenelle Simon) in a disco. When Lena finally arrives to the resort, more than halfway into the movie, he finally finds himself in the position of having to choose one of the three. Rohmer would want us to think that Margot would be the best choice, and is difficult to disagree, since she's so charming and so willing to listen to him and even put up with him. It's amazing how Rohmer (who was in his late 70s when he directed this) is able to portray realistically how young people talk and interact. The final decision by Gaspard was a bit of a disappointment, but it was probably the more realistic possibility.

m67165 This is about a guy and the three girls he is seeing during summer in the French seaside. He seems unable or unwilling to be clear about his emotional life. So do the girls, each in their own way. This is a movie with lots of talking, and not much high intensity. You do get some uneasy scenes, and it does manage to get you curious about the outcome: who will he eventually choose? I suppose the director wanted to do a movie about the confused feelings of some young people of today. Anyway, the actors are beautiful, and so is the seashore. I found it, in the end, quite uplifting.