Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon

Section: Panorama / Careers

A love forbidden due to a clash between families brings Shakespeare to mind, but Eric Rohmer has found another source which replaces melodrama with games of love and chance, thanks to a medieval text which turns Céladon into a man in love who is capable of showing himself with another woman in front of his beloved Astrée, emphasizing on a simulation that wounds Astrée to the point of refusing to see him until she decides to. There will be no consolation for Céladon, but with the audience that [...]

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