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Mar 17, 2017 · The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is adapted from Honoré D’Urfé’s L’Astrée, a lengthy proto-novelistic romance about fifth-century Gallic shepherds published in several instalments between 1607 and 1627. In Rohmer’s much-winnowed version, a misunderstanding leads Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour) to accuse her beloved Celadon (Andy Gillet) of infidelity; distraught, he attempts to ...
Sep 5, 2007 · Based on a seventeenth-century novel more noted in literary histories than actually read, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is a recherche exploration of an archaic literary form, the pastoral ...
Sep 24, 2007 · The Romance of Astrea and Celadon unfolds in the Forez plain of ancient Gaul, a costume-party idyll of nymphs and druids, where men wear dresses and carve love poems into tree trunks. Its focus is the star-crossed coupling of the titular duo, the innocently pretty Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour) and her cut-from-marble shepherd Céladon (Andy Gillet), who drift apart after she catches him ...
French. Box office. $386,621 [1] The Romance of Astrea and Celadon ( French: Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon) is a 2007 historical romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer and starring Andy Gillet and Stéphanie Crayencour. Based on Honoré d'Urfé 's 17th-century novel L'Astrée, it is the final feature film directed ...
Celadon the shepherd and Astrea the shepherdess are united in pure love. Misled by a jealous suitor, Astrea orders Celadon to stay away from her for evermore. In his despair, he jumps into a rushing river. She thinks he is dead, but he is secretly rescued by a bevy of nymphs. —Anonymous
The French New Wave began circa 1958 and influenced in one way or another most of the good movies made ever since. Some of its pioneers (Melville, Truffaut, Malle) are dead, but the others (Godard, Chabrol, Rivette, Resnais, Varda) are still active in their late 70s and up. And Eric Rohmer, at 88, has only just announced that "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon" may be his last film.
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Aug 26, 2015 · The Romance of Astrea and Celadon. By Richard Brody. August 26, 2015. With his last film, from 2007, Eric Rohmer left the stage with an audacious flourish, infusing a fifth-century pastoral ...
