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(L'Ami de mon amie). Rohmer leaves Paris for an antiseptic subdivision of clean white walls and horrid 1980s fashions, a move which strangely adds a lighthearted feel to the usual tale of romantic entanglements and disasters. Blanche and Léa are two modern women surrounded by an assortment of male dullards, though it's the dullest of all that finally gains Blanche's eye: Alexandre, a vain engineer given to pompous statements like "I was born for the big cities! I'm a metropolitan man!!" Léa, meanwhile, is having difficulties with her own boyfriend, Fabien. Alexandre, however, likes Léa, and by now Fabien has his eye on...well, you understand. Rohmer spins his ronde like Shakespeare passed it down himself, adding it up with the lightest of touches and an irony as effortless as the comedy itself.