I imagine that in most video purchases the customer is sold on the film or movie and has decided to buy it, what's really important to know is the quality of the recording. This version of "Pauline..." is excellent, clear, sharp images and rich color. So if you like the movie you wont be disappointed in this print or recording of it.

One of my favorite films. Hard to find these days. I wanted my wife to watch it.

I liked this movie. I liked it more when I was 19. Now I'm old and I'm not that impressed. Except for the blonde star. She is still fine as ever.

Pauline, a precocious 15 year old, is on holiday with her older, glamourous cousin at the beach in France. The awful truth about relationships and love is revealed to her, albeit in a somewhat humourous way.

I originally saw this film in 1982 (inspired to go see it by Siskel & Ebert's TV review), and it instantly became one of my most favorite films.

Rohmer drew me into the film and made me feel as if I was in the room with the characters listening to their philosophical ideas about love & life.

If you're interesting in watching the movie, I strongly suggest that you get the Blu-ray version. It's full HD (1080p -- very clear & sharp) and, although the soundtrack is still mono, it has been improved (& the sub-titles are clearer, as well).

The Blu-ray version is a huge improvement over the other versions that I have owned (laserdisc & regular DVD).

Rohmer has perfected his type of movie: a well crafted study that poses almost as a home movie. His moral point of view is there for you to discover, but never didactic or heavy handed. The movie is exactly that, Pauline at the beach. She is a young woman on the verge of adulthood who has been left in the care of her older, more worldly cousin still young but full of contradictory ideas about love and romance. Pauline is quite resilient and is at first influenced to some degree by her cousin and her male friends. Through the course of the story we see Pauline become skeptical and then rejecting this world of selfishness and trivial intrigue.

This has a great teenage female lead, clear-sighted and in contrast with three Rohmer males -- unpleasant, weak, self-important, one almost evil. It's a beautiful film to look at. As in all Rohmer movies, the male characters love to hear themselves talk and some people don't like that. This has a lot in common with Claire's Knee, another wonderful movie, perhaps even better, and available with a number of other Rohmer films on Hulu Plus.

It's hard to go wrong with anything Eric Rohmer directed. I've liked this movie since the first time I saw it a couple decades ago.
An older Amanda Langlet appeared in A Summer's Tale and then in Triple Agent. Here, she is particularly charming and ingenuous
in her first appearance onscreen.