The Bakery Girl of Monceau movie storyline. A bashful, young man is infatuated with an unknown woman he meets every day in the streets. After a brief encounter he knows that she is interested in him as well. The next day she has disappeared. He paces the streets up and down for three weeks, but no sign of her. His despair is growing and so is his hunger.
It becomes a daily routine to break his search after the unknown woman with a visit to a small bakery, where an 18-year-old girl sells the cakes to him. After a while he finds out that the young girl approaches him, but in a shy way. Because he is in love with another woman, he feels not diffident in front of this young and innocent girl, and starts a small courtship with her. It’s a kind of revenge, which makes him feel unworthy, but he justifies himself by laying the fault on her.
She tells him her name is Jacqueline, and after much hesitation she agrees to meet him at a restaurant one evening. Ten minutes before the rendezvous should take place, he suddenly meets the unknown woman, Sylvie, on the street again. He quickly decides to ignore his appointment with Jacqueline. With Sylvie found, seeing the other would be a vice, an aberration. His choice to ignore Jacqueline is for him a question of morals.
The Bakery Girl of Monceau or The Girl at the Monceau Bakery is a 1963 film by Éric Rohmer. The original French title is La Boulangère de Monceau. The film was the first of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales (Contes moraux), which consisted of two shorts and four feature films.
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
Directed by: Éric Rohmer
Starring: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junck, Michel Mardore, Bertrand Tavernier
Screenplay by: Éric Rohmer
Cinematography by: Bruno Barbey, Jean-Michel Meurice
Film Editing by: Jackie Raynal, Éric Rohmer
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Les Films du Losange
Release Date: May 11, 1963
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