The Stranger's Charles Mudede once wrote that "the flow of words is sequenced with the motion of bodies" in the film of French director Eric Rohmer ("As a man says something philosophical about love to a woman, he walks to a huge nearby rock and puts a hand on it; as the woman responds by saying something about how his ideas about love are self-serving, she steps away from the man and looks at some trees in the distance"). This newly restored quartet of features, beginning in the 1990s with A Tale of Springtime and moving through the seasons, are some of his most acclaimed works, each dealing with jealousy, intimacy, and the challenges of romance.