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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.
Rohmer’s final series was the Contes des quatre saisons (1990–98; “Tales of the Four Seasons”). At the beginning of the 21st century, he directed such films as L’Anglaise et le duc (2001; The Lady and the Duke), Triple Agent (2004), and Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon (2007; Romance of Astrea and Celadon); the latter was his ...
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Mar 24, 2021 · He arrives for a summer vacation in a seaside town in Brittany, where a friend has lent him a room. His girlfriend, Léna (Aurelia Nolin), is supposed to meet him there but she’s delayed. In the ...
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).
- Films as Director and Scriptwriter
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By ROHMER: books—
Hitchcock, with Claude Chabrol, Paris, 1957; Oxford, 1992. Six contes moraux, Paris, 1974. The Marquise of O, New York, 1985. Le Gout de la beauté, edited by Jean Narboni, Paris, 1989. A Taste for Beauty, Cambridge, 1990.
By ROHMER: articles—
Interview with Graham Petrie, in Film Quarterly(Berkeley), Summer 1971. "Eric Rohmer Talks about Chloe," in Inter/View(New York), November 1972. "Programme Eric Rohmer," an article and interview with Claude Beylie, in Ecran(Paris), April 1974. "La Marquise d'O . . . ," in Avant-Scène du Cinéma(Paris), October 1976. "Rohmer's Perceval," an interview with G. Adair, in Sight andSound(London), Autumn 1978. "Rehearsing the Middle Ages," an interview with N. Tesich-Savage, in Film Comment(New York)...
On ROHMER: books—
Mellen, Joan, Women and Sexuality in the New Film, New York, 1973. Vidal, Marion, Les contes moraux d'Eric Rohmer, Paris, 1977 Angeli, G., Eric Rohmer, Milan, 1979. Mancini, Michele, Eric Rohmer, Florence, 1982. Estève, Michel, Eric Rohmer 2, Paris, 1986. Magny, Joel, Eric Rohmer, Paris, 1986. Crisp, C. G., Realist and Moralist, Bloomington, Indiana, 1988. Bonitzer, Pascal, Eric Rohmer, Paris, 1991. Showalter, E., editor, My Night at Maud's: Eric Rohmer, Director, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1...
This chapter defines the scope of the Eric Rohmer’’s Film Theory mono-graph. It analyses the writings published by Eric Rohmer as a film critic (particularly, but not exclusively, between 1948 and 1953), as well as a smaller selection of reviews (primarily from the same period) by fellow critics, who would eventually establish the politique ...
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Weihong Bao (University of California, Berkeley, United States), Dr. Trond Lundemo (Stockholm University, Sweden). Editorial Board Members Dudley Andrew, Yale University, United States Raymond Bellour, CNRS Paris, France Chris Berry, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom Francesco Casetti, Yale University, United States
