For centuries silence has held a profound pride of place in developing the emotional tone of movies. But seldom, if not never, in those of the French auteur Eric Rohmer. His movies revelled in capturing the sincerity of human conversation, going in that way behind the psyche of human condition by letting people talk for as many words per minute as he possibly could. This shifted slightly in his Four Adventures which is actually a kind of an oddball in his oeuvre, something else. In it exists an other silence creating blanks of what it is the character are actually not saying. In this essay, I write about that.

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