PAULINE AT THE BEACH Pauline à la plage Presented in association with MGM With the support of the Los Angeles Film and TV Office of the French Embassy and Cultures France Silver Bear for Best Director at the 1983 Berlinale 1984 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Comedy/Drama/Romance France, 1983 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1.66/Mono/95 min Written and directed by: Eric Rohmer Cinematography by: Néstor Almendros Editing by: Cécile Decugis Music by: Jean-Louis Valéro Produced by: Margaret Ménégoz Production Company: Les Films du Losange, Les Films Ariane International Sales: Les Films du Losange 22, avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie 75116 Paris France Phone: +33 1.44.43.87.10 www.filmsdulosange.fr U.S. Distributor MGM Home Entertainment 10250 Constellation Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90067-6200 (310) 449-3000 www.mgm.com Cast: Arielle Dombasle (Marion), Amanda Langlet (Pauline), Pascal Greggory (Pierre), Féodor Atkine (Henri), Simon de La Brosse (Sylvain), Marie Bouteloup (Marie), Michel Ferry (Sylvain’s friend) Pauline at the Beach is the third installment in Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs cycle, a series of six films. Newly divorced Marion (Arielle Dombasle, Time Regained, L’Ennui, A Good Marriage) takes her 15 year-old cousin Pauline (Amanda Langlet) on a holiday at the beach. Although Marion claims to be worldly and wise, Pauline proves to be the most sensible and mature in matters of the heart in the way she handles her summer flirtation with young Sylvain (Simon de La Brosse, The Little Thief (COL•COA 2010), Betty Blue). As Pauline watches her pretentious and clueless cousin become absorbed in a meaningless love affair with local Lothario Henri (Féodor Atkine, Ronin, Alexander), she grows disillusioned with the adult world and its lot of deceit and double standards. A former novelist and literature professor, ERIC ROHMER (1920 – 2010) was one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave. With over 50 films, Rohmer crafted a coherent and impressive body of work, exploring various moral and philosophical themes through his film cycles: Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, Tales of the Four Seasons. After a few attempts at filmmaking while he was editor of the Cahiers du Cinéma from 1957 to 1963, he had a breakthrough in 1962 with the short film The Bakery Girl of Monceau, first of Six Moral Tales. Throughout his career, he won many awards, including a Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes for The Marquise of O (1976), a Silver Bear for The Collector (1967) and Pauline at the Beach (1983), a Golden Lion for his overall career (2001), and an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in 1971 for My Night at Maud’s. His last theatrical film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, was screened at COL•COA 2008.