Dan Conley

Michel de Montaigne wrote that it is equally possible to fail at solitude as it is to fail in the company of others. Delphine is a character who desires to be alone when she is with other people, but wishes to be with other people whenever she’s alone. She

This section takes us through four days of Delphine’s odd, improvisational vacation, and up to about the halfway point in the movie. In begins on Sunday, July 21 with her still in Cherbourg. Her friend is about to leave, returning to Paris, and the original plan was for Delphine

One of the interesting things about Delphine, the trait that distinguishes her from most people who suffer from depression, is that she doesn’t put a lot of energy into masking. A sad fact about being sad is that most people try so hard to pretend that they aren’t

This will be a relatively short section, because I’ll be completing the day that began with with dockside flirtation. I do need to clear something up before I do that — the movie actually jumped ahead 10 days in the last part. We are not on July 8, but rather

All of the little flashes of story that appeared in the last section now get confirmed in this one. The last segment ended with Delphine defusing her increasingly-heated personal discussion with Beatrice by bringing up her relationship with Jean-Pierre. It seemed to do the trick. There’s just one problem

As I mentioned in part 1, “The Green Ray” has risen in stature since it was released in the mid 80s. This has happened while much of Rohmer’s body of work has faded a bit from cinema history. Two of his moral tales films, “My Night at Maud’s”