''Full Moon in Paris'' (french: Les nuits de la pleine lune, lit=Full Moon Nights) is a 1984 French romantic

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film written and directed by

Éric Rohmer Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (; 21 March 192011 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the post-World ...

. The film stars

Pascale Ogier Pascale Marguerite Cécile Claude Colette Nicolas (26 October 1958 – 25 October 1984), better known as Pascale Ogier, was a French actress. She won the Volpi Cup, and posthumously received a César Award nomination for her role in the 1984 fi ...

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and

Fabrice Luchini Fabrice Luchini (; born Robert Luchini; 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor. He has appeared in films such as ''Potiche'', ''The Women on the 6th Floor'', and '' In the House''. For his role in the 2015 film '' Courted'' he won th ...

. The score is by

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. ''Full Moon in Paris'' was the fourth instalment in Rohmer's ''Comedies and Proverbs'' series. The story opens with the proverb ''"Qui a deux femmes perd son âme, qui a deux maisons perd la raison"'' ("He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two houses loses his mind.")

Synopsis

Trainee textile designer Louise (Pascale Ogier) lives in

Marne-la-Vallée Marne-la-Vallée () is a new town located near Paris, France. Disneyland Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park, Val d'Europe, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, ESIEE Paris, and École des Ponts ParisTech are located in Marne-la-Vallée. Statu ...

, a suburb some 20 miles from central Paris, with her architect lover Rémi (Tchéky Karyo), but also has a small flat as a ''

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'' in the centre of the city. Feeling confined by their relationship she tells Remi she intends spending more evenings in the flat in solitude, while able to go to parties, which he doesn't like - when her friend Camille (Virginie Thévenet) holds one, he turns up late, doesn't enjoy himself and leaves early, upsetting Louise. After she's redecorated the flat and moved in, she's surprised to see Rémi in a Paris cafe. Her gossipy journalist friend Octave (Fabrice Luchini) says he thought he saw Camille there at the same time: Louise is jealous at the thought that they might have got together, though it turns out Camille was in Milan at the time. Octave, who's married, later declares his love for Louise, partly because he's jealous she plans to spend the evening with a sax player, Bastien (Christian Vadim). She says she only wants Octave as a friend. However, after sleeping with Bastien in the flat, she immediately feels constricted there too, and goes out in the middle of the night to a bar. There, an illustrator (László Szabó) explains that it's because of the full moon: it unsettles everyone's emotions. She realises she really wants to be with Rémi and rushes back to Marne next morning - but when he appears, he tells her he's fallen in love, not with Camille but with her flatmate Marianne (Anne-Séverine Liotard), and plans to spend his life with her. Louise, shocked that he's taken her at her word when she claimed she was happy with an open relationship, packs and miserably moves out of the house.

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