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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This should be the minimum for any beginner film maker today. Back than, censorship, poverty, and a rigid hierarchy make this production something worthy of a mature team. The camera is clean. The scenes are correct. The story is very rudimentary, yet well finished.There is no magic in there. Sure, compared with the governmental production of the French back in the day, the film is quite refreshing. Still, parroting the half baked thoughts of film critics back in the day and talking about the je ne sais quoi of this movie, well, that's just pompousness.Myself I have disliked the story. The story of an aggressive loser. Is he self absorbed? No. Rohmer is male absorbed and the women are just centerfolds pasted on the wall.

Yes but not, sorry... The chap so much looks old man-game, hoisted otherwise downright prig, whom we can only look at this movie with one certain unhealthy curiosity ! Of course there is highly-rated charming one resulted from the vintage heroines of the narrative and we could return on highly-rated heroic of all the dredgers and seducers of the world, but Rohmer does not make so much effort to look after the personality of his characters that the set seems finally all the same very dated, and I do not even speak about it has no sense of humor characteristic total moreover of the style of this director. Even if its true down in France, off the park of Monceau, we'd see from time to time people of this kind near the most beautiful avenue in the world...

This is a short film by Eric Rohmer--and the first of his six so-called 'Morality Tales'. Unlike some of his later films, this one seems much more like a typical French New Wave film--with its unusual camera work (looking more like an amateur film at times), use of natural settings and unusual style."The Bakery Girl of Monceau" begins with a young man noticing a pretty lady as he walked to college. He's interested in her but they don't know each other at all--and he's working up the courage to talk to her. Eventually, he bumps into her and they talk a bit. He asks her out for coffee but she declines--but tells him she'd be willing in the future. The problem, however, is that for some time he returns to his daily route and doesn't see her. Instead, however, he becomes interested in a girl who works in a bakery. What will become of this and will the original girl return? While I know that many love Rohmer and New Wave films, this one seems like it's more a practice film than a finished product. It's incredibly mundane--to the point of almost being banal. Because of this, it's not for the casual viewer--and a film that is really impossible to rate.

The first film of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, The Girl at the Monçeau Bakery, only twenty-three minutes in length, centers on the dilemma of a young man (Barbet Schroeder) forced to choose between women. The young man, a law student, is infatuated with Sylvie (Michele Girardon), a girl he sees walking on the street each morning and thinks about how to introduce himself. After making a brief connection, the girl suddenly disappears and he spends his days looking for her on the streets of Paris. His search takes him to a nearby bakery where he buys one cookie each day and begins to notice Jacqueline (Claudine Soubrier), the bakery counter girl.She is shy and withdrawn but when she finally agrees to go out with him, the first woman reappears and he is faced with a choice between a girl he hardly knows but loves and a promising relationship with a girl that has taken to him. He arrives at his choice but it is done coldly and with little regard for the feelings of the rejected woman, rationalizing this by telling himself, "My choice had been above all, moral. One represented truth, the other a mistake, or that was how I saw it at the time." The film, though a first effort, offers believable characters and conveys a strong sense of location, providing a loving glimpse at Paris in the 60s.