The Green Ray: Members Only
- Sat, Jul 25
- Wed, Jul 29
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 99 min. Release Year: 1986 Language: French
Starring: Amira Chemakhi, Béatrice Romand, María Luisa García, Marie Rivière, Sylvie Richez
Éric Rohmer’s The Green Ray is July 2026’s Frida Cinema Film Club Members Only screening! The fifth film in the director’s Comedies and Proverbs cycle, the movie captures the ache of summertime sadness with exquisite poignancy, making it a nice offbeat choice for this month.
The Jules Verne novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for the story of Delphine (Marie Rivière), a dreamy, introverted young secretary who, reeling from a breakup with her boyfriend, faces the prospect of spending her summer vacation alone. As she bounces from Cherbourg to the tourist-choked Alps to the sunny beaches of Biarritz, Delphine passes through a whirl of social activity—but remains profoundly alone, as true human connection continually eludes her.
As honest a portrait of longing for understanding as has ever been committed to film, The Green Ray is one of the most piercingly perceptive works by French cinema’s keenest observer of human relationships.
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