Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Renette lives in the countryside, while Mirabelle lives in Paris. They meet on a rural road when Mirabelle’s bicycle breaks down. After becoming friends, the two decide to rent an apartment together in Paris, where they are planning to study at university.

In Rohmer’s films, characters can spend half an hour discussing the color of a postcard or a casually dropped remark — and that turns out to matter more than any plot twist. “Four Adventures” begins as a story of friendship between two very different young women, and gradually becomes a kind of herbarium of delicate, weightless observations about how people learn to hear one another and, in togetherness, fear the big frightening world a little less.

Nothing “really” happens here — the friends talk, walk around, go to cafés, argue about morality and contemporary art. But it is precisely from such small things that Rohmer builds a film of astonishing precision: light, funny, and deeply attentive to everyday life.