The Aviator's Wife
The Aviator's Wife

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The aviator Christian visits his ex-mistress Anne seven o'clock in the morning, to tell her that their affair is over, because his wife is pregnant and will soon move to Paris. Anne's new lover, François, happens to see Christian and Anne when they leave her house, and thinks that their affair is still going on. He tries to contact Anne, but she won't talk to him. At a pavement café François sees Christian and an unknown woman, which he assumes is the aviator's wife. As he... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Aviator's Wife:

Philippe Marlaud
Marie Rivière
Anne-Laure Meury
Mathieu Carrière
Philippe Caroit
Coralie Clément

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The aviator Christian visits his ex-mistress Anne seven o'clock in the morning, to tell her that their affair is over, because his wife is pregnant and will soon move to Paris. Anne's new lover, François, happens to see Christian and Anne when they leave her house, and thinks that their affair is still going on. He tries to contact Anne, but she won't talk to him. At a pavement café François sees Christian and an unknown woman, which he assumes is the aviator's wife. As he is in a bad mood and doesn't know what to do, he decides to follow the couple. On his way through a park he bumps into a cute girl, Lucie, who is 15 years old and has taken a day off from school. Lucie soon brings 20-year-old François to explain to her what has happened to him this morning. She is excited by his story and especially the puzzling parts of it. She joins him in pursuing the couple and thinks out various hypotheses about them. When the couple goes into a lawyer's office, Lucie is sure that the unknown woman is the aviator's wife and that they are seeking a divorce. Later, when François visits Anne he learns that the unknown woman is actually not the aviator's wife but his sister. Anne also confirms that her affair with the aviator is over. When François is going to send Lucie a postcard about this, he happens to see Lucie kissing a boy, which makes him dispirited, as this boy happens to be François' friend and work colleague that he sees every day.

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Boston Globe - 9/10 by Bruce McCabeEric Rohmer's The Aviator's Wife returns him to form as a master of the wry, witty, ironic and indefatigably cerebral detective story of the emotions.
New York Times - 8/10 by Janet MaslinThis pragmatism doesn't necessarily foster clarity, however. If anything, it makes the material seem thin.
User Review - 10/10 by Josh KThis is about the least appealing aspects of romantic relationships--the asymmetry in affections and the dissipation of passion. Marlaud and Riviere have an all-too real dynamic going on as he tries to figure what is going on between her and her aviator ex-lover. The acting is wonderful, but the real star is the drab apartments, cafes, and workplaces of Paris.
User Review - 8/10 by Richard SOne of my favourite Eric Rohmer films. I like the lightness and lack of sensationalism in his films, and the fact that the people talk in a real way, about real things. The themes of the film are the things that ordinary people deal with every day, and Rohmer seems to have a handle on the psychology of lovers, and be an adept reader of people in general. I even visited the rather inglorious Buttes Chaumont because it is featured in the film!
User Review - 8/10 by Kajori AEric Rohmer is a genius. He captures the complex beauty of ordinary life so well. Along with My Boyfriend's Girlfriend, one of the best romantic comedies ever made.
User Review - 8/10 by John DLovely film from Eric Rohmer, about people getting things wrong in love, making mistakes and making mistakes about what the people around them are thinking and doing. This film, and the people and places in it, looks and sounds like real life. If you like car chases and gunfights you may find this too slow, but it appealed to me.
User Review - 8/10 by Issac LNow I can safely deem I have reached an approximate age to watch Rohmer's canon, mid-30s is a ripe age to broach more cerebral film viewing activities, so my first and random pick is THE AVIATOR'S WIFE, Rohmer's first part of Comedies et Proverbes (6 parts in all) series. The film is capsulized in one-day's span, Francois (Marlaud), a young student whose night shift makes the relationship with his girlfriend Anne (Rivière) in strain, after witnessing Anne left with her ex-lover Christian (Carrière) from her apartment in the morning, and later a sour altercation with Anne, a jealousy-driven Francois compulsively follows Christian and his blonde companion (Caillot), and by happenstance he meets a 15-year-old schoolgirl Lucie (Meury), the two improvise an amateurish but perky private detective team until they find out Christian goes to visit a lawyer. After Lucie departs, Francois visits a stress-inflicted Anne, it seems they reconcile and Francois figures out who the blonde is. When the night falls, Anne is out for an exhausting date and Francois accidentally finds Lucie kiss another boy, so he sends a postcard to her and put a closure to their stalking adventure, the story ends. There is no big twist or melodramatic plots in Rohmer's film, he masterfully recounts the dribs and drabs of emotions pestering one's relationship and daily lives, visceral and empathetic, he unerringly captures the quirks and fluctuations of the characters he writes, no larger-than-life frills, everything returns to an authentic basis which reflects its transfixing mojo, for example, the intricate discovery of the blonde's identity is casually schemed, but never condescending or audience-pandering, truth reveals itself in its most trivial form, also in the park, when Lucie intends to take a Polaroid from two tourists, it is lifelikeness never feel redundant in spite of its overlong progress which would be trimmed in most cinematic presentations, but Rohmer is confident to let his audience to savor the subtle interactions among the players and keeps it vibrant. The sad trivia of the cast is Marlaud would soon die in a tragic camping tent fire accident after completing this film, he was only 22, in the film he interprets a sensitive and diffident boy, who is smitten with Anne, an independent working girl 5 years older than him, their on-and-off rapport is under close scrutiny, and Rivière takes on a more difficult role and dominates the screen especially during her expository declaration of her credo in self-reliance in her tiny apartment. Meury is a delight in the midstream, maybe too quick-witted for a 15-year-old, but her natural self-confidence could easily win audiences over. The titular wife only exists as a glimpse on a picture, whose backstory would illicit another film feature to expound an existential individual's philosophical quandary about affection and compromise. Sadly, there is no Rohmer in this world anymore.
User Review - 8/10 by Greg WAnother great script and casting by auteur Rohmer. "Personally I like life most when it's like a novel." Anne-Laure Meury--what a charmer! Her performance alone makes this worth watching. The actress was only 16 when this was filmed though seems more like 18. So deliciously demonstrative she steals every scene.
User Review - 6/10 by Atzin GI'm not really into Eric Rohmer's films, saw this one and actually liked it a lot, found it wit and funny. It's a simple comedy, simple lifes, simple people, simple problems, nothing extraordinary happens, but characters are lovely Anne-Laure Meury is fabulous, and I'm not really into Marie Riviere since I saw her in Le Rayon Vert, why all her characters have to be so disgosting? But even with her, the movie is completely enjoyable. And you will certainly have some laughs and a good moment.
User Review - 4/10 by Rob RYes, I understand that Rohmer is a bit of an acquired taste, that in his style characters are more important than plot, but boy, this thing plods! Almost cliche regarding Euro-art house films can be found here - long conversations about how and why everyone is screwing someone behind someone's back and being as miserable as possible about it. The tone is so languid and relaxed you can't help but find yourself nodding off, and it's hard to empathize with characters made so morose by their own selfish impulses. Maybe I'm not Gallic enough to get it.

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