Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
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French	Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle
Directed by	Éric Rohmer
Written by	Éric Rohmer
Produced by	Margaret Ménégoz
Starring	Joëlle Miquel Jessica Forde Philippe Laudenbach Marie Rivière Fabrice Luchini
Cinematography	Sophie Maintigneux
Edited by	María Luisa García
Music by	Jean-Louis Valéro
Production companies	Compagnie Éric Rohmer Les Films du losange
Distributed by	Les Films du losange
Release date	4 February 1987 (1987-02-04) (France)
Running time	99 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$575,000

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (French: Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle) is a 1987 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer, starring Joëlle Miquel, Jessica Forde, Philippe Laudenbach, Marie Rivière and Fabrice Luchini.

Synopsis

The film consists of four episodes in the relationship of two young women: Reinette, a country girl, and Mirabelle, a Parisian. The first episode, "L'Heure bleue" ("The Blue Hour"), recounts their meeting, and Reinette's wish to share the blue hour, a moment of silence between the natural sounds of the night and the dawn. The second episode, "Le Garçon de café" ("The Waiter"), centers on a café and a difficult waiter. In the third, "Le Mendiant, la Kleptomane et l'Arnaqueuse" ("The Beggar, the Kleptomaniac and the Hustler"), the girls discuss their differing views on people at the margins of society: beggars, thieves and swindlers. In the fourth episode, "La Vente du tableau" ("Selling the Painting"), Reinette and Mirabelle succeed in selling one of Reinette's paintings to an art dealer, while Reinette pretends to be mute and Mirabelle, acting as if she does not know Reinette, does all the talking.

Cast

• Joëlle Miquel as Reinette
• Jessica Forde as Mirabelle

"The Waiter"

• Philippe Laudenbach as the waiter
• François-Marie Banier as the first passer-by
• Jean-Claude Brisseau as the second passer-by

"The Beggar, the Kleptomaniac and the Hustler"

• Yasmine Haury as the kleptomaniac
• Gérard Courant as the male inspector
• Béatrice Romand as the female inspector
• Marie Rivière as the scammer
• David Rocksavage as the English tourist
• Jacques Auffray as the tapeur
• Haydée Caillot as the charitable woman

"Selling the Painting"

• Fabrice Luchini as the art dealer
• Marie Bouteloup and Françoise Valier as visitors in the gallery

External links

• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle at IMDb
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle at AllMovie
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle at AlloCiné (in French)
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle at Rotten Tomatoes