Love in the Afternoon

Love in the Afternoon

97 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 1972

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.

Love in the Afternoon

97 mins | Drama, Romance | Sept. 1, 1972

Love in the Afternoon
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Les Films du Losange
Original title L'Amour l'après-midi
Directors Claudine Guillemin, Lorraine Santoni, Claude Bertrand, Éric Rohmer
Writers Éric Rohmer

Cast

Bernard Verley

as Frédéric

Zouzou

as Chloé

Françoise Verley

as Hélène

Daniel Ceccaldi

as Gérard

Malvina Penne

as Fabienne

Elisabeth Ferrier

as Martine

Tina Michelino

as The Passenger

Jean-Louis Livi

as The Colleague

Pierre Nunzi

as The Salesman

Irène Skobline

as The Saleslady

Frédérique Hender

as Mme. M.

Silvia Bădescu

as The Female Student

Claude Bertrand

as The Male Student

Sylvaine Charlet

as The Landlady

Danièle Malat

as The Customer

Suze Randall

as The Au Pair

Françoise Fabian

as Dream Sequence

Marie-Christine Barrault

as Dream Sequence

Haydée Politoff

as Dream Sequence

Aurora Cornu

as Dream Sequence

Laurence de Monaghan

as Dream Sequence

Béatrice Romand

as Dream Sequence