In a Eric Rohmer film, characters project their desires upon what they see. In Rohmer's Die Marquise von O, the Marquise is saved from rape by the Russian Count, her hero, the embodiment of all virtue, before whom she swoons away. In his Le Beau mariage, the young woman, whose lovemaking is interrupted by a phone call from her lover's wife, rejects him in a rage and determines to marry. There is always a reality in Rohmer's films other than the one that the main characters have invented for themselves and that they live. Rohmer works in long takes most of which consist not of action but of dialogue. His characters speak incessantly and it is their dialogue that he films. In the fictions that they construct with their words they become their own heroes and heroines.