A Tale of Winter: Lovers Lost

A Tale of Winter: Lovers Lost

by Kathy Fennessy



The late Eric Rohmer had a knack for investing soap-opera configurations—love triangles, extramarital affairs—with complexity and surprise. In its outlines, A Tale of Winter, part of his Tales of the Four Seasons tetralogy, is the soapiest of all (it falls between 1990's A Tale of Springtime and 1996's A Summer's Tale).

He starts by introducing Charles (Fréd