Autumn Tale

Original title: Conte d'automne

1998
PG
1h 52m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

6.5K

YOUR RATING

Marie Rivière and Béatrice Romand in Autumn Tale (1998)

Comedy Drama Romance

A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.A widow's best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the ad posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

6.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 3 nominations

Trivia
This films evokes Yasujiro Ozu 's films (1903-63) in particular An autumn afternoon ( sanma no aji)1962.

Quotes
Gérald: You really fooled me. I was ready for anything but this. You see, in a way, I'm relieved: Something was fishy, but I couldn't figure it out. But I'm disappointed, too. Very much so. I was already more than interested in you. I don't want to shock you, but I wanted to love you, and I'm frustrated.
Isabelle: OK, stop this nonsense.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: The Haunting/Lake Placid/Drop Dead Gorgeous/Inspector Gadget/An Autumn Tale (1999)

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Review

Featured review

10/10

Wonderful sense of dialogue-realite

I wish I understood French better---I feel that this must have been a masterpiece of comfortable, unforced dialogue. Even the English subtitles left me feeling that these were real people having real conversations. OPne thing that usually turns me off in a film is the sense that a conversation is a forced device of exposition---like Deborah Kerr's soliloquies. Everyone pulled this off very well. They just chatted comfortably through the film, and the audience caught enough of it to follow the story. And a decent enough story it was, with the delights and disappointments very well played through body language.