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Aug 15, 2022 · Eric Rohmer was a reserved yet dedicated filmmaker who remained one of the only directors from the New Wave period to continue his output just as strongly in the decades after the era’s decline. Rohmer began his film career as a journalist and editor for the iconic French film journal Cahiers du cinema. In the early 1950s, Rohmer, who was ...
Mar 20, 2020 · Today, whenever a director makes a movie in which characters talk at length in ways that blend romantic confusion and intellectual pith, it will inevitably be likened to a Rohmer film ...
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Sep 14, 2020 · Rohmer pulls off this low-key art “heist” with sharpness and gentleness and some meta humor, birthed from something Miquel said to him early in their first meeting: “I organize my life in ...
Jan 13, 2010 · Born in 1920, Rohmer was about a decade older than many of his French New Wave peers. He started making films later in life, and was approaching middle age by the time he made his first full ...
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- Claire’s Knee (1970) Claire’s Knee (Le Genou de Clair e) is the fifth film in Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales and is all about desire. This is the story of Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a man who is getting too old to have a desire for two young women who are half-sisters, Laura (Béatrice Romand) and Claire (Laurence de Monaghan), a teenage girl.
- Pauline at the Beach (1983) Pauline at the Beach (Pauline à la plage) is a coming-of-age story about 15-year-old Pauline (Amanda Langlet), who spends her summer in Normandy with her older cousin Marion (Arielle Dombasle).
- My Night at Maud’s (1969) The first feature in Rohmer’s Moral Tales series, My Night at Maud’s (Ma Nuit Chez Maud), tells the story of hyper-devoted Roman Catholic Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and the night he spends at smart, beautiful, divorcee Maud’s (Françoise Fabian) house.
- Love in the Afternoon (1972) Love in the Afternoon (L’Amour l’après-midi) is the sixth and final installment of the Moral Tales and, as such, touches on themes of love, desire, and temptation.
Jan 11, 2010 · Rohmer was born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer on April 4, 1920 in eastern France. The name ‘Eric Rohmer’ was actually a pseudonym, a combination of the names of an actor and a writer he admired.
Rohmer's best-known article was "Le Celluloïd et le marbre" ("Celluloid and Marble", 1955), which examines the relationship between film and other arts. In the article, Rohmer writes that in an age of cultural self-consciousness, film is "the last refuge of poetry" and the only contemporary art form from which metaphor can still spring ...
