A period piece and another Rohmer "inaction" film

At first the 1976 Eric Rohmer film The Marquise of O doesn't look or feel like a typical Rohmer work: It's in color, a period piece (set during the Napoleonic Wars, ca 1800, at a palatial German estate) and it begins w/ a swashbuckling scene: Russian soldiers are overpowering the forces defending the castle at O; a young Russian officer sees a group of Russian soldiers attacking the young Marquise and trying to rape her; he comes to her rescue, earning the gratitude of the vanquished German nobleman. But don't worry, the action stops there - or at least the externally and conventionally dramatic action, and we soon enter Rohmer-land: A film comprising many extensive conversations among a small set of characters; almost all the shots are interiors, with no significant camera movement, very much as if we're watching a play (or a literal translation of a story - which this is, story by Heinrich von Kleist from ca 1800). So it's by no means an action film; it's really an inaction film; but still - fans of Rohmer and his unique, restrained, "classical" style will enjoy puzzling over the complex relationships that develop over time: The Russian soldier wants to marry the Marquise (she's a widowed mother of 2); her father at first welcomes the proposal but wants to give it the test of time; the Marquise finds out she's pregnant, but insists she never had sex since her widowhood; can you figure out where this story is heading? Of course you can, but it's still worth watching the intricacies of this drama - which does rise to a few points of crisis - unfold and, uneasily, resolve.