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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 .
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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.
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.
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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 ...
