Rohmer | 1981 | France

3rd watch.

A movie that I adore so unreservedly that when I was in Paris last year, I went out of my way to visit Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, where the above sequence was filmed. It’s hard to show a character completely wake up to themselves in merely 106 minutes, and Rohmer waits until the last of those minutes to punctuate the journey. Perfection.