I love Eric Rohmer's movies mainly those in which, like in this one, he shows normal daily life that can have important episodes which can be gracious, humorous, even sometimes having poetry or a bit of mystery, unexpectedness and adventure. He shows his characters thinking and philosophizing about apparently simple things and behaviours and those thoughts often contrast with real life events. We can also see through the dialogues the contrast of the universe of values we may have in mind and the real world outside. In this movie two young girls meet by chance when one of them has got a flat tyre while riding a bicycle in the countryside and the other one offers to help her to solve the problem. From now on they become close friends though they are very different in temperament, mentality and behaviour. The one who lives in the country goes to Paris and the other one who lived there already, shares her apartment with her new friend. Both are university students, the Parisian one in Ethnology and the country one in Fine Arts. After the first adventure of her meeting they live in Paris 3 more episodes of daily life which were adventurous but without going much beyond the natural and ordinary and shown with great simplicity but also with great mastery. Only in my opinion the fourth and last episode is a bit too fanciful but the movie is good in its whole despite that.

A relatively unknown effort from 1987 by French director Eric Rohmer is slight but worthwhile. The four "adventures" of the title are really slight stories which our two protagonists go through, with some moral lesson to be learned.

In the first episode, the tough, sophisticated law student Mirabelle (Jessica Forde) goes to the countryside where she meets Reinette, a painter and naive country girl (played by Joelle Miquel, who is great).The next three episodes have Mirabelle returning to her native Paris bringing the innocent Reinette along her. A lot of the situations have to do on how the natural country honesty of Reinette is tested in the cynical big city. The episode I liked best was the second one, in which Reinette has to deal with a very rude waiter at a bar. The third one (which is mostly about how Mirabelle decides to help a shoplifter to Reinette's dismay) is weaker, but the final episode, in which Reinette tries to sell her paintings to an art dealer despite having put on herself a vow of silence, is fine.

Some actors from previous Rohmer movies (like Beatrice Romand, Marie Riviere and Fabrice Luchini) have bit parts here.

A typical Eric Rohmer film is not unlike the ideal croissant: a light and flaky taste of empty calories. His fans don't expect anything more, and will likely find four times the fun in this quartet of mini-parables involving two young pals with very little in common. Reinette is a naive and slightly neurotic child of nature, while Mirabelle is the more demure, sophisticated city girl, and their so-called adventures don't amount to much more than mildly comic pokes at all-too human idiosyncrasies. Each of the four stories exhibits varying degrees of cleverness and charm, but with no binding continuity between them and no real motive or resolution (all part of their appeal, no doubt) the end result is a whimsical but insignificant movie, easy enough to enjoy but difficult to recall in detail twenty minutes later.