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Mar 24, 2021 · Éric Rohmer’s “A Tale of Summer,” from 1996, is the third film in the director’s tetralogy “Tales of the Four Seasons” and the only one with a male protagonist.
- The Bakery Girl of Monceau
- Claire’s Knee
- My Girlfriend’S Boyfriend
- My Night at Maud’s
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle
- Pauline at The Beach
- The Aviator’s Wife
- La Collectionneuse
- Love in The Afternoon
- The Green Ray
Rohmer’s black and white short filmThe Bakery Girl of Monceau kicked off the director’sSix Moral Tales series in 1962. We follow the unnamed narrator around Paris as he falls in love with a woman he frequently sees in the street. After finally plucking up the courage to speak to her, she disappears, leading the young student to search for her. Duri...
Acting as the fifth instalment in the Six Moral Tales series, Claire’s Kneeis one of Rohmer’s most visually stunning films. Set against the backdrop of Lake Annecy, dandyish Jerome finds himself faced with an intense desire to touch the knee of Claire, an 18-year-old girl who couldn’t care less about him. The film explores the ageing man’s preoccup...
Rohmer’s Comedies and Proverbs series gave women a central role, and My Girlfriend’s Boyfriendis no exception. The film explores the friendship between Blanche and Lea and the intermingling of relationships as they become involved with each other’s boyfriends. The filmmaker’s observation of French young professionals is set against a backdrop of th...
Starring the late Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis, a serious and religious engineer, My Night at Maud’s led Rohmer to gain international recognition, earning him anAcademy Award nominationfor Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay. The film’s main theme, which sees Jean-Louis spend the night with the intelligent and beautiful ...
Released amidst the Comedies and Proverbs, although not an official instalment, Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle is one of Rohmer’s most progressive films. Containing an almost entirely female cast, aside from the few male characters that antagonise the protagonists, the film revels in the beauty of female friendship. We follow the naïve a...
Pauline at the Beachis perhaps one of Rohmer’s most accessible films, functioning as a romantic comedy full of wit and tenderness. We follow Pauline, a 14-year-old girl who is holidaying with her older cousin, Marion. The pair encounter Pierre, an old lover of Marion’s on the beach, as well as an overly-charming stranger, Henri, and a teenage boy, ...
The first film of the Comedies and Proverbs, The Aviator’s Wife, remains one of the strongest instalments in the series, combining light-hearted Hitchcockian suspense with great emotional depth and a standout performance by Rohmer-favourite Marie Riviere. Rohmer takes us on a journey of amateur espionage, clearly inspired by Vertigo, as Philippe Ma...
Marking Rohmer’s first foray into colour film, the filmmaker utilises the benefits of colour to create a visual feast in La Collectionneuse, focusing on the gorgeous natural landscapes of St. Tropez that play host to the immature ramblings and games of two men, Adrien and Daniel. The pair of self-righteous men – reminiscent of the protagonist ofThe...
Set in a post-1968 France, protagonist Frederic is caught between the traditionalism he has been raised with, and the blossoming liberalism of his surroundings. Love in the Afternoon is a sophisticated look at a man tempted by infidelity, yet also stresses the love he feels for his wife. Featuring French icon Zouzou as the object of his desire, the...
Shot on gorgeous 16mm, The Green Ray is one of cinema’s most underrated explorations of loneliness and drifting. We follow Delphine (Marie Riviere’s greatest performance) as she restlessly attempts to enjoy her holiday after her relationship breakdown. Floating between friends and strangers, Delphine cannot find real happiness until she immerses he...
Rohmer’s films, often presented as parts of a multi-episodic series – Contes moraux (Six Moral Tales, 1963-72), Comedies et Proverbes (Comedies and Proverbs, 1981-87), Contes des quatre saisons (Tales of the Four Seasons, 1990-98) – explore the awkward romantic entanglements, emotional upsets, and moral dilemmas that ensue when characters are caught between two or more objects of desire ...
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).
Children. 2. Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (French: [eʁik ʁomɛʁ]; 21 March 1920 [ a ] – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established.
Eric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920 - January 11, 2010) was a screenwriter and director and a key figure in French New Wave cinema. He began writing film criticism in the late 1940’s and was, for some years, the editor of Cahiers du Cinema. He was the last of the major New Wave directors to become established, working ...
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Mar 20, 2020 · The Front Row. Watch the Films of Éric Rohmer on His Centenary. By Richard Brody. March 20, 2020. Pascale Ogier in a scene from Éric Rohmer’s “Full Moon in Paris,” from 1984.Photograph ...
