Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Boyfriends and Girlfriends (French: L'Ami de mon amie; also known as My Girlfriend's Boyfriend) is a 1987 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. The film stars Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, François-Éric Gendron and Éric Viellard.[1] It is the sixth and final instalment in Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The title literally means the (male) friend of my (female) friend, or perhaps the boyfriend of my girlfriend: it echoes the proverb "Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis" ("My friend's friend is my friend").[2]

Boyfriends and Girlfriends
Theatrical release poster
FrenchL'Ami de mon amie
Directed byÉric Rohmer
Written byÉric Rohmer
Produced byMargaret Ménégoz
Starring
CinematographyBernard Lutic
Edited byMaría-Luisa García
Music byJean-Louis Valéro
Production
company
Distributed byActeurs Auteurs Associés
Release date
  • 26 August 1987 (1987-08-26) (France)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Plot

Blanche is freshly installed in Cergy-Pontoise, a trendy new town near Paris. She has a new apartment, a new job with no one over and no one under her. She meets Léa at lunch one day, and soon she meets an acquaintance of Léa, Alexandre, whom she approaches somewhat awkwardly. The film then follows the time-honored plot of exchange of relationships, as Blanche and Léa switch boyfriends.

Cast

Reception

The film received generally positive reviews from major critics. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 10 critics.[3]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised the film highly, saying, "L'Ami de Mon Amie is as clean and functional in appearance as the satellite city, but it's full of unexpected delights."[4] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it three out of four and wrote: "Rohmer knows exactly what he is doing here. He has no great purpose, but an interesting small one: He wants to observe the everyday behavior of a new class of French person, the young professionals."[2] Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum also gave the film a favourable rating.[5] Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote: "It's an utterly superficial movie – a celebration of superficiality – and utterly charming."[6]

References
  1. "Review/Film; Rohmer's Own View Of the Mind Published". The New York Times. 15 July 1988. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. Ebert, Roger (16 September 1988). "Boyfriends and Girlfriends". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 16 July 2017 – via RogerEbert.com.
  3. "Boyfriends and Girlfriends (L'ami de mon amie) (1987)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  4. Canby, Vincent (9 October 1987). "Film: 'Ami de Mon Amie'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017.
  5. Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1987). "Boyfriends and Girlfriends". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  6. Hinson, Hal (13 August 1988). "Boyfriends and Girlfriends (PG)". The Washington Post.


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