Love in the Afternoon(L'Amour l'après-midi)
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France · 1972
Rated R · 1h 37m
Director Éric Rohmer
Starring Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi
Genre Drama, Romance
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The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. 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 eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.
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