Eric Rohmer on city planning?

In an article on The destruction of Paris (comments later on the article itself) the author opens with:

A few years ago, Eric Rohmer made a movie about the mayor of a village in the Vende who decides that what his picturesque hamlet needs is not a new library but a mediathque, an untranslatable word for a fashionable multimedia boondoggle.

A mediathque building must be erected, which means bringing in an architect and setting aside space for parking lots and handicapped ramps and the right municipal lighting. In this particular village, it also would mean cutting down the venerable and pleasant tree near the house of the baba cool village teacher.

The teacher, not surprisingly, is against the whole project, as are related other stock characters in this curious movie: the newspaper editor, the muckraking freelance journalist, the mayors good-looking girlfriend, all for their own reasons. But it is the teacher who sums up certain things best: he has always been against the death penalty, he says, but he is in favor of restoring it, for architects.

I must see this movie, which I believe is titled L' Arbre, le maire et la mediatheque.

UPDATE: According to Scarecrow Video this movie does not appear to have been released in the USA. If there is contrary information or other source of availability, please let me know. D.S.