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Love in the Afternoon (1972)

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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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Director
Éric Rohmer
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    Frédéric Bernard Verley
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    Chloé Zouzou
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    Hélène Françoise Verley
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    Gérard Daniel Ceccaldi
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    The Colleague Jean-Louis Livi
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    Mme. M. Frédérique Hender
  • Profile picture of Claude-Jean Philippe
    Mr. M. Claude-Jean Philippe
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    The Female Student Silvia Bădescu

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