My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Suzanne's Career (1963)

The second film in Eric Rohmer's Six Morale Tales Series, this almost-hour long story is of a college student's judgmental relationship with a friend's on-and-off again girl friend.  Suzanne is more of a free-spirit; an opinionated young woman that rubs Bertrand the wrong way even as he refuses to accept that he's attracted to her all the same.   There is even a feeling that if Bertrand was more accepting he'd fall for her.  As I write this I'm trying to pin-point the reason I enjoyed it so much.  It's funny how such a simple plot can really inspire a memorable little story.  I think what worked for me was that these characters were so real.  I've known people like them.  It might as well have happen in a city in the United States with young people today using cell phones and Facebook.  Such a wonderful universal quality makes it a timeless work.  The next film in the series is La Collectionneuse  and I'm looking forward to it because so far I'm loving what Rohmer is doing.  Grade: B+ 
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