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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.  Eric Rohmer's charming, witty and exquisitely observed quartet of romantic comedies are among the veteran director s most popular and acclaimed works. A Tale of Springtime An enchanting comedy of manners in which a newly formed friendship between two girls is put to the test when one suspects the other of some mischievous matchmaking. A Winter's Tale A young Parisian woman's idyllic holiday romance results in the birth of a daughter. Through a mix-up over her address, she loses touch with the baby's father, but dreams of one day being reunited with her lost love. A Summer's Tale In a beautiful Brittany seaside resort, a young man becomes romantically entangled with three beautiful young women. As their patience with him wears thin, he must make the difficult choice between them. An Autumn Tale The final story is a light-hearted romantic comedy set in the vineyards of the Rhône Valley. When Isabelle attempts to play matchmaker for her lifelong friend Magali, she finds things don t go quite according to plan.

A box set of French director Eric Rohmer's four films inspired by the seasons. 'A Tale of Springtime' (1989) is the story of a friendship between a high school philosophy teacher and a music student. Caught between apartments, philosophy teacher Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre) attends a party, where a young girl, Natasha (Florence Darel), invites her to stay at the flat she shares with her father, Igor (Hugues Quester). Presently Jeanne finds herself witness to, then participating in, recriminatory scenes between daughter, father and his youthful lover, Eve (Eloise Bennett): jealous Natasha detests Eve, accusing her of theft, while Igor seems more than willing to be left with Jeanne. Rohmer examines the hidden motives and analyses the consequences of their actions, finding nobody wholly innocent. In 'A Winter's Tale' (1992), Parisian hairdresser Felicie (Charlotte Very) has a wonderful holiday romance with a man called Charles (Frédéric Van Den Driessche) in Brittany. She discovers she is pregnant but, through a mix-up over addresses, she loses contact with her lover. As her daughter grows up she finds it impossible to settle with another man, although she wavers between two suitors, and daydreams of Charles finding them again. In 'A Summer's Tale' (1996), Gaspard (Melvil Poupard), a bored young man on holiday in Brittany, is invited to a party by Margot (Amanda Langlet) while he is waiting for his classmate Lena (Aurelia Nolin), with whom he believes he is in love. At Margot's party Gaspard meets another girl, Solène (Gwenaelle Simon), who is also attracted to him. When Lena arrives too, Gaspard is forced to choose between the three girls. In the fourth and final instalment, 'An Autumn Tale' (1998), happily-married Rhone Valley wine-grower Isabelle (Marie Rivière) wants to see her widowed friend Magali (Béatrice Romand) matched up. To this end, she secretly places a lonely hearts ad in a paper on Magali's behalf and chooses a man for her. Misunderstandings ensue, however, when Magali sees Isabelle acting suspiciously with a mystery guest at her daughter's wedding. The film won the Silver Lion for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival.