Giunti Odeon presents a restored version of one of Éric Rohmer's masterpieces, a film that won the Golden Lion at the 1986 Venice Film Festival. The film is framed by the lines of a poem by Arthur Rimbaud: ‘Ah, come the time when hearts fall in love!’. That time, for Delphine, a secretary in a Paris office (played by Rohmer's iconic actress, Marie Rivière), seems destined never to come again, after she broke up with her boyfriend two years earlier. In the film, loneliness is a condition suffered rather than sought as a conscious alternative, resulting in a deep sense of bewilderment and emptiness, intensified, rather than lightened, by the summer break, another void to be filled. Friends and relatives are no help, nor are stays in Cherbourg and Biarritz. The result is a restless and lonely movement, with Paris at the centre of everything, a city to return to and then immediately flee from, a nervous and contradictory comings and goings, secretly waiting for something unexpected to interrupt it... The screening of The Green Ray at Giunti Odeon is the inaugural event of the ‘Éric Rohmer: Comedies and Proverbs’ review that will continue in the coming weeks at Spazio Alfieri in Florence, in collaboration with Academy 2.