This collection of essays by the film-maker and critic, one of the founding members of the French "New Wave" cinema, was originally written for the French film review Cahiers du Cinema between 1948 and 1979.

Six short films about Paris by French directors. Jean Luc Godard's film concerns a girl who is writing to her two lovers. Claude Chabrol turns in a sketch about a quarreling couple. Eric Rohmer offers a tale about a salesman who fears he has killed a tramp. Films by Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch and Jean-Daniel Pollet are also included.

A Tale Of Springtime
This enchanting comedy of manners follows the newly formed friendship between Jeanne, a philosophy teacher, and Natasha, a music student, who meet by chance at a Paris party. Through force of circumstance, the young women spend the next few days dividing their time between Natasha's father's city apartment and the family's second home in Fontainbleau. Inspired by the newly blossoming season, the girls' fancies turn to thoughts of love, but their friendship is threatened when Jeanne suspects Natasha of some mischievous matchmaking. The first in Eric Rohmer's acclaimed series Tales of the Four Seasons.

A Winter's Tale
On holiday in Brittany, Parisian hairdresser Felicie has an idyllic romance that results in the birth of her daughter, Elise. Through a mix-up over her address, she loses touch with Elise's father, Charles, and becomes obsessed with the lost love of her life. She finds it impossible to settle with another man and wavers between two unsatisfactory relationships, while holding onto the dream that Charles may one day return. The second in Eric Rohmer's Tales Of The Four Seasons series, this charming and wonderfully acted love story has the compelling quality of a fairytale.

A Summer's Tale
The third part in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons charts the summer vacation of Gaspard, a young man who claims nothing ever happens in his life. But one summer, he discovers that nothing could be further from the truth. In Dinard, a seaside resort in rural Brittany, Gaspard becomes romantically entangled with three beautiful young women: his classmate Lena, waitress Margot, and the outgoing Solene, whom he meets at a party. As the girls' patience with him begins to wear thin, a confused Gaspard must make the difficult choice between them.

An Autumn Tale
Rohmer's light-hearted romantic comedy, set amongst the vineyards of the Rhone Valley, concludes his film cycle Tales of the Four Seasons. Best friends Magali, a widow, and Isabelle, a happily married bookshop owner, have known each other since childhood. Although Magali enjoys her life as a winegrower, she admits she would relish some male companionship; a confession that prompts Isabelle to secretly find her friend a man. After placing a lonely hearts ad, Isabelle chooses a suitor, but finds that things don't quite go according to plan...

In French with English Subtitles.

Eric Rohmer's reputation was established with his ambitious Moral Tales series of films, each based around a common theme - in his words: 'a man meeting a woman at the very moment when he is about to commit himself to someone else'.

The Girl At The Monceau Bakery (1962)
Barbet Schroeder plays a young man whose affections are divided between two beautiful girls - one he meets on the street and another who works in a local bakery - but finds himself faced with the dilemma of choosing between them.

Suzanne's Career (1963)
In Rohmer’s tale of adolescent naiveté, Bertrand, a shy and reserved student, finds himself consumed with jealousy and resentment as he observes his roguishly confident best friend Guillaume exploit the generosity of the sweetly seductive Suzanne.

La Collectionneuse (1967)
Left to his own devices when his fiancée goes to London, Adrien decides to spend his vacation experimenting with monastic life in the peace and quiet of a large house in St Tropez. However, the villa already has two occupants: his artist friend Daniel and Haydée, a woman he does not know. Haydée collects lovers and comes home at all hours of the night, disturbing Adrien’s ascetic pursuits, yet despite his resistance, Adrien finds himself beginning to surrender to her charms. The third in the Moral Tales series.

My Night At Maud's (1969)
The film that propelled Rohmer to international acclaim remains one of the finest achievements of his career. The fourth in the Moral Tales series, it tells the story of a chaste and conservative thirty-something who sees a woman that he believes will be his perfect match whilst attending church. But when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the worldly and spirited divorcée Maud, he finds the moral certainties of his life are suddenly thrown into question.

Claire's Knee (1970)
The fifth in the Moral Tales series takes a witty look at a man's singular obsession with a much younger woman. Whilst minding a friend’s country estate, Jérôme, recently engaged to his long-term partner, encounters sixteen year-old Laura and a flirtation begins until Jerôme’s roving eye is completely taken by the arrival of her step-sister Claire, whose unaffected sensuality completely bewitches him.

Love In The Afternoon (1972)
In the last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales we focus on business executive Frederic, who leads a happily married life with wife Helene and enjoys his job as a partner in a small Paris office. He spends his afternoons dreaming of other women, but that's all it ever is - dreaming. Until one day, a mistress of an old friend begins dropping by his office. They begin to meet quite irregularly during the afternoons, until she decides she wants to seduce him, which leaves Frederic with a serious moral dilemma...

In French with English subtitles.