The Aviator’s Wife
1981, PG, 102 min.
Directed by Eric Rohmer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Philippe Marlaud, Marie Riviere, Anne-Laure Marie.

“Love and Morality: The Films of Eric Rohmer” is an eight-film survey of films by the cerebral French master. The Aviator’s Wife is the first in Rohmer’s cycle of “Comedies and Proverbs.” In it, a young man is plagued by an unhappy relationship and blissed out by his encounter with a stranger in the park.

This article appears in October 5 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.