Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle is a 1987 French film directed by Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

, lasting 102 minutes and starring Joëlle Miquel, Jessica Forde, Philippe Laudenbach.

Synopsis

Four episodes (Rohmer titles them ‘Aventures,’ ‘Adventures’) in the relationship of two young women, Reinette, a country girl, and Mirabelle, a Parisian: city girl and country girl. The first is entitled ‘The Blue Hour’ and recounts their meeting. The second centers on a café and a waiter, a difficult man ‘with attitude.’ In the third they interact with and discuss their different views on society’s ‘margins’: beggars, thieves, swindlers. And in the fourth, on a bet, Reinette, an art student, and Mirabelle succeed in selling one of Reinette’s paintings to an art dealer while Reinette pretends to be mute and Mirabelle, who effects not to know her, does all the talking.