History Film / TheBakeryGirlOfMonceau

A law student (Barbet Schroeder)[[note]]who produced this film and the subsequent five Moral Tales, and later became a prominent director in both France and America, with such films as ''Film/{{Barfly}}'' and ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' to his credit[[/note]] becomes infatuated with the beautiful, blonde Sylvie (Michèle Girardon), who he passes on the sidewalk every day.

''The Bakery Girl of Monceau'' (French: ''La boulangère de Monceau'') is a 1962 short film written and directed by Creator/EricRohmer, offically the first of his ''Film/SixMoralTales''.

A law student (Barbet Schroeder)[[note]]who produced this film and the subsequent five Moral Tales, and later became a prominent director in both France and America, with such films as ''Film/{{Barfly}}'' and ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' to his credit[[/note]] becomes infatuated with the beautiful, blonde Sylvie (Michèle Girardon), who he passes on the sidewalk every day. One day they bump into each other and finally talk. Since the ice is now broken he decides to ask her out on a date the next time he sees her. But when he goes to look for her in the neighborhood where she lives, she's nowhere to be found. To pass the time he goes to a small bakery where the shy brunette Jacqueline (Claudine Soubrier) works. Stopping by the shop each day after a fruitless search for Sylvie, he's convinced that Jacqueline has fallen in love with him and finally asks her out. But on his way to pick up Jacqueline, he meets Sylvie again.

* [[OneBookAuthor One Film Actress]]: This was Claudine Soubrier's only film.

* StoodUp: The film ends with [[spoiler:the protagonist blowing off his date with Jacqueline to be with Sylvie]].

A law student (Barbet Schroeder, who produced this film and the subsequent five Moral Tales, and later became a prominent director in both France and America, with such films as ''Film/{{Barfly}}'' and ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' to his credit) becomes infatuated with the beautiful, blonde Sylvie (Michèle Girardon), who he passes on the sidewalk every day. One day they bump into each other and finally talk. Since the ice is now broken he decides to ask her out on a date the next time he sees her. But when he goes to look for her in the neighborhood where she lives, she's nowhere to be found. To pass the time he goes to a small bakery where the shy brunette Jacqueline (Claudine Soubrier) works. Stopping by the shop each day after a fruitless search for Sylvie, he's convinced that Jacqueline has fallen in love with him and finally asks her out. But on his way to pick up Jacqueline, he meets Sylvie again.

* SameLanguageDub: Fellow director [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier]] provide the first person voiceover narration, because Rohmer decided that Barbet Schroeder didn't quite have a sophisticated-enough voice.

A law student (Barbet Schroeder, who produced this film and the subsequent five Moral Tales, and later became a prominent director in both France and America, with such films as ''Film/{{Barfly}}'' and ''Film/ReversalOfFortune'' to his credit) becomes infatuated with the beautiful, blonde Sylvie (Michèle Girardon), who he passes on the sidewalk every day. One day they bump into each other and finally talk. Since the ice is broken he decides to ask her out on a date. But when he goes to look for her in the neighborhood where she lives, she's nowhere to be found. To pass the time he goes to a small bakery where the shy brunette Jacqueline (Claudine Soubrier) works. Stopping by the shop each day after a fruitless search for Sylvie, he's convinced that Jacqueline has fallen in love with him and finally asks her out. But on his way to pick up Jacqueline, he meets Sylvie again.