The Green Ray (1986)

Highly Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: Le rayon vert

Director: Eric Rohmer

Writers: Eric Rohmer, Marie Rivière

Cinematographer: Sophie Maintigneux

Composer: Jean-Louis Valéro

Cast: Marie Rivière, Lisa Hérédia, Béatrice Romand, Rosette, Eric Hamm, Carita, Joël Comarlot, Vincent Gauthier

Let down at the last minute by her friend and travelling companion, Delphine, a delicate young woman with cripplingly low self-esteem and equally cripplingly high standards, is forced to set off on her annual summer holidays alone, hoping (and, for the most part, failing) to find companionship and contentment, in Rohmer’s gently, unpredictably moving and painfully authentic feeling yet vaguely whimsical character study. Iain.Stott