Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.
Critics Sentiment
Reinette shows Mirabelle the blue hour in nature
Philippe Laudenbach plays an extraordinarily rude waiter at cafe
The film drops from the poetic heights of the blue hour sequence to the divisive broad comedy of the rude waiter scene, a swing of over 3 points that split critics between those who found it amateurish and those who enjoyed the Fawlty-esque humor.
The film opens with mixed reception but reaches transcendent heights during the blue hour sequence that critics universally praised. The middle episodes exploring moral differences and urban-rural contrasts generally pleased reviewers, though the broad comedy waiter scene proved divisive. Overall, critics appreciated Rohmer's exploration of an unlikely friendship without romantic complications, finding depth in the philosophical discussions between the contrasting characters.
Full cast
Joëlle Miquel
Reinette
Jessica Forde
Mirabelle
Philippe Laudenbach
Le Garçon De Café
François-Marie Banier
1er Passant
Jean-Claude Brisseau
2e Passant
Yasmine Haury
Kleptomaniac
Gérard Courant
L'inspecteur
Béatrice Romand
L'inspectrice
Marie Rivière
L'arnaqueuse - Swindler
David Rocksavage
L'anglais
Jacques Auffray
Le tapeur
Haydée Caillot
Charitable Lady
Fabrice Luchini
Le marchand de tableau
Marie Bouteloup
1st Visitor
Françoise Valier
2nd Visitor
Éric Rohmer
Man in Supermarket (uncredited)
Crew
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