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A cathedral looms in the background of a shot in this film that frames two characters at the top of a hill during a snowstorm, where one confesses to have just recently ended an affair with a married man. A Marxist in this film discusses how he must opt for the hypothesis that history has meaning, even though he considers the opposite more likely, in one of this film’s many references to Pascal. This film was released after (15[1])La Collectionneuse and served as the centerpiece of its director’s series (*) Six Moral Tales. A shot in this film captures the protagonist wrapped in a blanket above the covers while in bed with the title character. At the end of this film, the protagonist encounters his ex-lover at a beach, before confessing to his wife Françoise he had been with that ex-lover the morning they first met in Clermont-Ferrand. For 10 points, the strict principles of Jean-Louis are challenged by a stay with the title divorcee in what Éric Rohmer film? ■END■

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