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Help! Seasons' Quartet Order


What order do I watch these films on?

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I think there are three good ways to watch these films.

In the order Rohmer made them: Spring, Winter Summer then Autumn.

Or in seasonal order starting with Spring and going to Winter.

Or just one at a time in the season its filmed in.

I think Rohmer would feel fine with each. He made his six Moral Tales slightly out of order. Likewise these... I prefer method two mostly.

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I've now seen two of them (autumn and summer), and they stand alone, so far as I can see, so the order should be immaterial.

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I had the same problem. As the seasons are an ongoing cycle, there isn't beginning nor end. That's why I personally went with the order Rohmer made them in. Spring seems like a nice beginning, Autumn seems like a nice ending. I've just watched Summer, so there's only Autumn left. So far I like my descission.

Without having watched Autumn, I'd say that Winter is probably the most bleak, unhappy and philosophical, I don't know if you want to watch that last, but it's very good in my opinion.

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You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were and I say Why not?

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The word is tetralogy, not quartet. And as is always a good idea, I would watch the films in the order they were created.

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For what it's worth, "quartet" is an acceptable word here, cf. Lawrence Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet"...and as to the order of things, "always" isn't perhaps le mot juste in every instance, for example Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" in which reading the novels in the order of the characters growing older and older from book to book is probably preferable to the order of the author's composing of the works, which zigzags back and forth...with all that said, vive Eric Rohmer!!

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