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A reel holiday
Pauline at the Beach
The grand tradition of the holiday movie, from Eric Rohmer to Luca Guadagnino, spins wisdom out of sun-kissed beach breaks.
There used to be many ways to take a year-end vacation. But with sightseeing and parties and travel all deemed dangerous post-pandemic, more and more people have had to be content with a movie-watching staycation. And when you can’t escape dreary city life in reality, there is much pleasure to be derived from movies about other people’s holidays.
So my vicarious vacation was centred on the late
French director Eric Rohmer, a kind of patron saint of the holiday film. As central to the French New Wave as more flamboyant members like Truffaut and Godard, Rohmer was a film critic first. He edited the pioneering