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4. Conte d'hiver. (A Tale of Winter, 1992) Inspired by Shakespeare’s play of the same name, the second in Rohmer’s ‘Tales of the Four Seasons’ follows hairdresser Félice, whose passionate holiday romance with Charles ends abruptly due to a mix up over her address.
Jan 11, 2010 · We've lost a gentle and wise humanist of the movies. Eric Rohmer 89, one of the founders of the French New Wave died Monday Jan. 11 in Paris. The group , which inaugurated modern cinema, included Jean-Pierre Melville, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Agnes Varda, Alain Resnais, Jacques Rivette and Louis Malle. Melville, Truffaut and Malle have died, but the others remain ...
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer: Irony, Imagination, and the Social World. New York: Continuum, 2012. ISBN: 9 781441198 310. Au$45 (pb) 384pp. (Review copy supplied by Continuum) “I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry”. So says Gene Hackman, as private investigator Harry Moseby, in Arthur Penn’s Night Moves (1975).
Jan 11, 2010 · Rohmer—who was born Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer and was known as Maurice—was a high-school teacher; he published a novel, “Elisabeth,” in 1946 (under the pseudonym Gilbert Cordier). And ...
Apr 4, 2010 · Rohmer describes the enduring “opposition of two registers” that informs the tension between his men and women: “one natural, the other human; one material, the other spiritual; one mechanistic, the other free; one of desire and appetite, the other heroism and grace.”. (16) The progression of the ‘Six Moral Tales’ tracks an ...
Aug 26, 2015 · Eric Rohmer’s films aren’t just people talking at length on earnest subjects. The vast amount of talk in his films hints at furious desire, and it substitutes for the gratification of that ...
Aug 14, 2006 · Formerly a literature teacher and a novelist, Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer to a well-off provincial family in 1920) began his career as a film critic at Cahiers du cinéma, which he also edited. And Bakery Girl and Suzanne’s Career testify to his central position within the French New Wave. His realist aesthetics are heir to ...
