The Aviator's Wife or You Can't Think of Nothing

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Movie
German title The aviator's wife
Original title La Femme de l'aviateur
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1981
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Eric Rohmer
script Eric Rohmer
production Margaret Ménégoz , Les Films du Losange
camera Bernard Lutic , Romain Winding
cut Cécile Decugis
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
The beautiful wedding

The Aviator's Wife is the first film from the series Comedies and Proverbs by Éric Rohmer, made in 1981 .

action

François, a law student, works at the post office at night, sorting letters to finance his studies. When he visits his girlfriend Anne one morning, he meets her former lover Christian, a pilot. Christian wants to say goodbye to Anne because his wife is expecting a child.

François tries in vain to call Anne at work, he ends up meeting her at lunch in the restaurant. They quarrel because Anne does not want to discuss her relationship with Christian. In the afternoon, François sees Christian again, together with a blonde woman. He observes the two of them during a bus ride, where he notices a student (Lucie) who speaks to him. Together they follow Christian and the unknown woman into the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont . When the two enter a house near the park, François and Lucie wait for a while in the café across the street. Lucie develops the hypothesis that the two have an appointment with a lawyer and want to get a divorce. She asks François to send her a message about the outcome of the story and leaves.

In the evening François visits Anne again, he explains to her that he would like to marry her, which she refuses. After he told her about Christian, she shows him a picture that also shows the blonde woman. But it's not Christian's wife, but his sister. François later meets Lucie again and sees her hugging one of his colleagues from the post office. Nevertheless, he sends her the promised message.

Remarks

  • Like the first two films from Rohmer's cycle Six Moral Stories , Die Fliegers wife was shot in 16 mm format. Rohmer justified this choice with aesthetic criteria. After the disappointing box office result of Perceval le gallois , there was only a minimal budget available for the film.

criticism

"Rohmers film is a little action-packed, animated game of conundrum about feelings and relationships, which lives from conversations and faces, whose cheerful and melancholy mood is intensely communicated to the viewer."

- Lexicon of International Films

literature

  • Éric Rohmer: Comédies et Proverbes. Volume I, La Femme de l'aviateur, Le Beau Mariage, Pauline à la plage. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma 1999. (= Petite Bibliothèque Vol. 37) ISBN 2-86642-240-6
  • Frieda Grafe : street theater . First published in: Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 16, 1982; in: Writings, Volume 3 . Brinkmann & Bose Verlag, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-922660-82-7 . Pp. 122-127.
  • Susanne Röckel : ‹Review of the film›. In: Film Review No. 308 from August 1982. pp. 369–373.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joel Magny: Eric Rohmer. Paris: Rivages 1986, p. 166
  2. ^ Lexicon of International Films

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