A Tale of Springtime

Jeanne, a young philosophy teacher completing her training at a Paris-area high school, finds herself without a place to stay when her fiancé is away and her own flat is occupied by her cousin. At a party she meets Natacha, a self-assured student who invites her to stay in the apartment of her father Igor, who is rarely there. The two women quickly become close, and Natacha clearly hopes to draw Jeanne toward Igor, even though both have partners already. Jeanne's growing attachment to the family is complicated when Igor's young lover, Ève, enters the picture.

Éric Rohmer wrote and directed this 1990 French drama, the tenth of the thirteen films he directed in chronological order, following Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle and preceding A Tale of Winter. It was produced by Margaret Ménégoz. Anne Teyssèdre plays Jeanne, with Hugues Quester as Igor, Florence Darel as Natacha and Eloïse Bennett as Ève.

The film has a modest but durable reputation rather than a mass following. On IMDb it holds a 7.1 rating from around 6,500 votes, and on TMDB a 6.8 from roughly 181 votes. A critics' rating of 6.8 from seventeen reviews suggests professional viewers responded much as general audiences did, with neither group markedly more enthusiastic than the other.