The film streaming platform, Mubi, are showing the Comedies and Proverbs cycle of films by the the French film director, Éric Rohmer.

Rohmer was a member of the French New Wave in cinema during the 1960s. He was an editor at Cahiers du Cinema and offers a counter-point to the better known films of his contemporaries, JL Godard, François Truffaut and Alain Resnais.

Interestingly, Rohmer identifies as a christian-democrat and social conservative of the Catholic tradition. His films are low-key ensemble pieces that often play out against a background of apartments, living rooms and, in Pauline à la Plage (1983), seaside and holiday.