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Rohmer preferred to use non-professional actors in his films. He usually held a large number of rehearsals before shooting and would shoot his films very quickly. He spent little time editing his films. He usually shot his films chronologically, and often shot scenes during the time of day in which they took place.
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).
Mar 21, 2024 · With his subtle yet profound storytelling style, Rohmer’s films are timeless works of art that explore the complexities of human nature and relationships. Throughout his career, Rohmer created a diverse body of work that spanned various genres, from the enchanting romanticism of A Tale of Springtime to the philosophical musings of My Night at Maud’s .
Apr 4, 2010 · Born 1929, Jean Douchet was a critic for Cahiers in the 1950s and 1960s, where he became a close friend of Rohmer. He made a number of films, including a portrait of Eric Rohmer for André S. Labarthe’s series “Cinéastes de notre temps” in 1994. He is the author of important critical works on Murnau, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Godard, Pollet, etc.
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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Situated in the space between mash-up, experimental film, and digital film criticism, ‘Mapping Rohmer’ journeys through Rohmer’s Paris using only footage from his films. It looks through Rohmer’s lens, and follows the various paths that he, his actors, and his camera together traced through the city. As François Penz notes, within his ...
