Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons (Criterion Collection)

Four-disc set includes: A Tale Of Springtime (1990)A high school teacher gets thrown out of her own apartment thanks to a visiting relative. She stays at the home of one of her students, never suspecting that the girl sees the teacher as the perfect wife for her divorced father, in this romantic comedy of morals and mixed signals from director Eric Rohmer. Anne Teyssedre, Hugues Quester star. 107 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR A Tale Of Winter (1992)Five years after her brief fling with America-bound cook Charles (Frédéric van den Driessche), Paris hairstylist Félicie (Charlotte Véry) is raising their young daughter. As she weighs relationships with her older boss (Michel Voletti) and a local librarian (Hervé Furic), she holds out hope that Charles will someday return, in Eric Rohmer's second "Tales of the Four Seasons" opus. 114 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR A Summer's Tale (1996)A French student plans to spend the summer in a seaside town on the Brittany coast, all in hopes of running into a girl he thinks he may be in love with. Along the way, however, his friendships with a pretty waitress and another woman wind up complicating the already tenuous relationship, in director Eric Rohmer's third "Tales of the Four Seasons" film. Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Aurelia Nolin star. 113 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR Autumn Tale (1998)Widowed vintner Magali (Béatrice Romand) was content burying her sorrows in her work, but separate plans to fix her up-one by her bestie (Marie Rivière) to introduce her to a bachelor (Alain Libolt) she found through a dating service, the other by her son's girlfriend (Alexia Portal) to match her with her professor (Didier Sandre)-run into comic complications in Eric Rohmer's last "Tales of the Four Seasons" entry. 112 min. In French with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR Widescreen; Soundtracks: French; Subtitles: English); bonus shorts "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1956), "A Farmer in Mountfaucon" (1968); featurettes; theatrical trailer.