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France - 1993 Canal + / Artificial Eye Written and Directed by Eric Rohmer With: Clara Bellar, Antoine Basler, Mathias Megard and Serge Renko Setting: Contemporary Paris Genre: Comedy of Manners Role: Esther, a student
 STORY: A hugely entertaining and absorbing trilogy of short stories each of which explores the misunderstandings and mis-conceptions that often dog twenty-something love affairs. With a fine cast of exceptional young actors each story unfolds perfectly. In all three parts, Paris is more than just the backdrop. Rohmer shoots it lovingly, often with a 16mm hand-held camera and the city positively participates in the film, almost as an extra star. PRESS:
"Esther (Clara Bellar), the kind of radiantly lovely young woman who can dependably be found in Mr. Rohmer's films."
"Clara Bellar is one of these young women whose sweet beauty is uncommonly pleasant to the eye, whom the camera purely loves and who is an accomplished actor at a very young age."
"Of all the actresses who've graced Eric Rohmer's movie fables over the decades, none so perfectly espouses the classically furrow-browed Rohmerian beauty as Clara Bellar, a star of this month's lovely, cinema verité-ish Rendezvous in Paris." "She is both beguiled and beguiling in the role."
"Paris's loss may be London's gain"
"The neatest section, about a girl suspecting her boyfriend of infidelity, is the first, and it's heroine, played by the sympathetic and engaging Clara Bellar, is the find of the film." MADAME FIGARO by Patricia Boyer de la Tour - March 1995 (Click here to read full article)
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