Four episodes in the relationship between a naive but talented painter from the provinces and a worldly Parisian student. After a lovely pastoral vignette in which they await the magical moment before sunrise, Reinette and Mirabelle move to Paris where their encounters with a shoplifter, a panhandler, and an antagonistic waiter prove both morally perplexing and hilarious. Working a sophisticated variation on the country mouse/city mouse theme, Four Adventures is a departure from Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs of the period, and is in many ways his most offbeat film since Perceval. Uncontrived events are enhanced with a Chaplinesque sense of comedy and a strong undercurrent of narrative experimentation that accompany Rohmer's customary delight in paradox and richness of characterization.