n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Delphine is Restless. Can't Conform to Banal happenings of city life, rules of relationship, mandatory vacations and "having fun"s, "moving on''s to next person and place and mood...all this not because of an ideology or any pseudo-rebellion tendency. She wants to connect, to reach out, to find friends. The thing is while others, mostly are settled on certain understandings of life and conventions, she's longing for a personal discovery, a tactile experience.Religion is nowhere to be found, national identity is a dice used for flirtation game and nature surprisingly, offers no peace. So Rohmer earnestly uses themes of astrology, destiny and superstition. It never works with one glaring exception. When Delphine eavesdrops on a group of old tourists' conversation about Jules Verne's "The Green Ray", (Science) fiction, nostalgia, (scientific) reasoning and heritage intertwine. Unfortunately Delphine herself is not even a passive part of this scene.Marie Rivière's sudden episodes of crying and gasping for breath are not of vulnerabilty and weakness. They're natural testaments to her flow of thoughts, to her depth, to her beauty. Sometimes a film is all about the actress. "Le Rayon Vert" is all about her.

This film is, no doubt, about loneliness and emptiness. But not in the casual meaning. The protagonist - Delphine can be seem in look for a guy - in order to be happy, to enjoy the life. But not, really. She is not looking for a guy or, anybody, anything. Name it either "she doesn't want to confess herself that she need somebody in her life to be happy, or understand it in the opposite meaning. I think, she is not, at the same time, is in search. As we see in the movie, she rings some people hoping to spend her vacation with. But the only one she is looking for, is she herself. In her personage, we can see ourselves. Eric Rohmer wanted to express the whole human being's purpose of life in the frames of one single personage's expressions. Everybody is looking for - not anybody or anything, but themselves. And this is about (maybe endless) search. Happy people achieve it, but not everybody, unfortunately... For movie: 10 of 10.

The green ray in the title of this French movie (also called green flash) refers to an optical phenomenon in which you can sometimes see, under certain hard to attain conditions, a green light coming from the horizon right after sunset (or right before sunrise). The famous French novelist Jules Verne wrote about this natural occurrence in a book called "The Green Ray" which is briefly referred to in the movie.The film itself is about Delphine (played by Marie Riviere, who has been in several movies of director Eric Rohmer), who works as a secretary in a Paris office. She is a slender, tallish, moderately attractive black haired woman in perhaps her late twenties and has a "difficult" personality. She has recently broken up with her boyfriend, right before the summer holidays, and the prospect of lonely vacations much saddens her (though to some in the audience it might not make the most compelling of tragic situations). So the movie is about her talking with friends about her predicament until she decides to go alone, meeting on the road a few people (including a Swedish woman who she first meets topless at a beach and who is meant to represent sexually liberal attitudes). I'm not going to spoil it for you whether Delphine will find a romantic partner or not during her travels, but the ray of the title does make an appearance.The movie is from 1986 and since it was shot on the street, you can see people with what are now "period" clothes. If you were, like me, a child in the 1980s, you will probably like this.Talky, as expected from the director, but the dialogues are not as pretentious as in other of his movies. Not the best of Rohmer, but very watchable. One problem with the plot is that it is not terribly original, since most of us have seen too many movies about single women around 30 years of age feeling lonely.

It is hard to believe that this amateurish film(single camera,long takes) about an impossible, narcissistic, Parisien woman with,as a previous reviewer has said ''mental problems''(I suspect this is a the modern take) won a prize at any film festival. I very nearly fast forwarded it at times,so tiresome was its arid,static nature. Rohmer's style is talking rather than action;the talking was an over- analysis of her fragile state of mind and the action was watching this precious self pitying woman(the veggie lecture was so typical)flounce out of every place and situation that her very indulgent friends and acquaintances kindly set up for her,or burst into tears when things weren't going well.Hiding the film behind spurious messages only made things worse. This film reminded me of those indulgent plays that the BBC made in the 70s where little or nothing happened,the play was then forgotten never to be seen again.When this film was released Rohmer was revered by art film lovers but I can't help thinking he has been found out.An over-rated film from an over-rated director.My copy was given away by a newspaper.Terrible film.Good coaster though!