Jean-Claude Brialy, My Night with Maude (1969) – A very moral man desperately tries to resist the overwhelming allure of a woman he ends up being forced to spend the night with. | Stars: Director: In 2001, his life's work was recognised when he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Rohmer typically populates his movies with people in their twenties and the settings are often on pleasant beaches and popular resorts, notably in La Collectionneuse (1967), Pauline at the Beach (1983), The Green Ray (1986) and A Summer's Tale (1996). Jean-Claude Dreyfus, | 2,352 [10][11] There, Rohmer established himself as a critic with a distinctive voice; fellow Cahiers contributor and French New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet later remarked that, unlike the more aggressive and personal writings of younger critics like Truffaut and Godard, Rohmer favored a rhetorical style that made extensive use of questions and rarely used the first person singular. Very hard to discuss this without spoiling it, but whilst at first I found myself struggling to understand exactly why Rohmer had chosen to explore this obscure period tale, at a certain point it becomes all to clear. Françoise Verley, "[9] Raphael Bassan said that "the filmmaker fails to achieve in these dialogues the flexibility, the textual freedom of The Aviator's Wife. Sabine pursues ... See full summary », Director: He wrote film reviews for such publications as Révue du Cinéma, Arts, Temps Modernes and La Parisienne. A French-American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope. My films are slaves to weather."[9]. | The fourth of director Éric Rohmer 's six "Comedies et Proverbes" series of movies of the 1980s. In 1950 Rohmer made his first 16mm short film, Journal d'un scélérat. To read the other reviews, please click on the “Eric Rohmer Collection” tag below. "[9] Rohmer even encouraged actress Pascale Ogier to design sets for the film since her character is an interior decorator. Marie-Christine Barrault, | | Director: The other five, in chronological order, are The Aviator's Wife (1981), A Good Marriage (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Summer (1986) and Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987). | Gross: "[9], His style was famously criticised by Gene Hackman's character in the 1975 film Night Moves who describes viewing Rohmer's films as "kind of like watching paint dry".[10]. 4,290 Drama, Thriller, France, 1936-37. | $0.04M, R The story opens with the proverb "Qui a deux femmes perd son âme, qui a deux … Stars: However, Rohmer brings back lots of actors with whom he worked with previously. Stars: Tchéky Karyo, "[9], In 1978 Rohmer made the Holy Grail legend film Perceval le Gallois, based on a 12th-century manuscript by Chrétien de Troyes. The Sixth "Comedy and Proverb" was Boyfriends and Girlfriends (L'Ami de mon amie) in 1987. Stars: Rohmer later said that television taught him how to make "readable images". He meets a second woman who works in a bakery and begins to flirt with her, but abandons her when he finally finds the first woman. One could say his own economy of the cinema that served his own purpose, which could skip the others, or to be more accurate that couldn’t skip the audience with its originality. Stars: Éric Rohmer These films are immersed in an environment of bright sunlight, blue skies, green grass, sandy beaches, and clear waters. Imágenes de la Revolución. Mr. Housseau, The first and second Moral Tales were never theatrically released and Rohmer was disappointed by their poor technical quality. [24]:1345 He had been admitted to hospital the previous week. Lucy Russell, Emmanuelle Chaulet, ", Beginning in the late 1970s during the production of Perceval le Gallois Rohmer began to reduce the number of crew members on his films. Béatrice Romand, Gerard Legrand once said that "he is one of the rare filmmakers who is constantly inviting you to be intelligent, indeed, more intelligent than his (likable) characters. | | It has the discussions on love, youth, and loneliness, which are all intriguing in their own way. In 1958 Rohmer made Véronique et son cancre, a 20-minute short produced by Chabrol. [17]:290 After being driven out of his editor position at Cahiers, Rohmer began making short documentaries for French television. [13] In 1962 Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder co-founded the production company Les Films du Losange (they were later joined by Pierre Coltrell in the late 1960s). "[9], The fourth "Comedy and Proverb" was Full Moon in Paris in 1984. This costume drama is every frame a Rohmer film, full of passionate dialogue between a man and a woman with opposing views on the Revolution, while the events themselves unfold off-screen. $0.00M, Not Rated Éric Rohmer During the 2010 César Awards, actor Fabrice Luchini presented a special tribute to him: I’m gonna read a remarkable text written by Jacques Fieschi: "Writer, director; creator of “the cinematographe”, challenger of "Les cahiers du cinema", which recently published a special edition on Eric Rohmer. Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer This was most evident in Le Beau Mariage (1982), which had the female protagonist constantly traveling, particularly between Paris and Le Mans. By 1951 Rohmer had a bigger budget provided by friends and shot the short film Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak. Éric Rohmer Elle continue à vivre avec le souvenir de cet amour. | $0.73M, G 3,860 In 1957 Rohmer and Claude Chabrol wrote Hitchcock (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957), the earliest book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock. Rohmer cited the works of Blaise Pascal, Jean de La Bruyère, François de La Rochefoucauld and Stendhal as inspirations for the series. Stars: Paul Bisciglia, Not Rated In 1952 Rohmer began collaborating with Pierre Guilbaud on a one-hour short feature, Les Petites Filles modèles, but the film was never finis… This page was last edited on 1 April 2021, at 21:07. 3. | | | Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (French: [eʁik ʁomɛʁ]; 21 March 1920[1] – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. The Lady and the Duke caused considerable controversy in France, where its negative portrayal of the French Revolution led some critics to label it monarchist propaganda. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. | He had a very unique point of view on the different levels of language and on desire that is at work in the heart of each and every human being, on youth, on seasons, on literature, of course, and one could say on history. Éric Rohmer But because the film takes place on Christmas Eve, Rohmer wanted to shoot the film in December. Frédéric van den Driessche, Comedy, Drama, In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. [18] The film's budget went only to film stock and renting a house in St. Tropez as a set. | If you have seen most of his other films, this is like one big happy reunion. 105 min In 1956 Rohmer directed, wrote, edited and starred in La Sonate à Kreutzer, a 50-minute film produced by Godard. [9], Rohmer first worked as a teacher[10] in Clermont-Ferrand. Rohmer often made films that he had been working on for many years and stated "I can't say 'I make one film, then after that film I look for a subject and write on that subject...then I shoot.' Drama, Romance. Comedy, Drama, Romance. | Gross: Director: Pascal Greggory, Stars: [13] Les Films du Losange produced all of Rohmer's work (except his last three features produced by La Compagnie Eric Rohmer). Éric Rohmer He managed to infuse his film, Full Moon in Paris, with so much French culture and style, the plot takes a back seat: style triumphs over substance. | Schroder starred as the young man and Bertrand Tavernier was the narrator. A Tale of Springtime (1990), the inaugural entry in Éric Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons” cycle (a quartet of movies that will stream via Film Forum’s virtual cinema this April), opens with a brief study in displacement. It is a film I couldn't imagine in black and white. Rohmer was obsessively private and gave out different dates of birth; other dates that appear in sources include 4 April 1920, 1 December 1920 and 4 April 1923. Alain Bergala and Alain Philippon have stated that "all the art of Eric Rohmer consists of creating on the set a veritable osmosis among himself, the actors and the technicians. | Michèle Girardon, Vincent Gauthier, Peter Lühr, Votes: | Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. In 1957, Rohmer married Thérèse Barbet. Éric Rohmer The plot is interesting: a pretty young lady hooks up with as many men she could handle. Fabrice Luchini, He followed these with a third series in the 1990s: Tales of the Four Seasons. [9], In 1963 Les Films du Losange produced the New Wave omnibus film Six in Paris, of which Rohmer's short "Place de l'Etoile" was the centerpiece. Full Moon in Paris ranks with the very best of Rohmer. | | He usually held a large number of rehearsals before shooting and would shoot his films very quickly. Director: Stars: Zouzou, $0.04M, PG This 26-minute film portrays a young man, a college student, who sees a young woman in the street and spends days obsessively searching for her. La Collectionneuse won the Jury Grand Prix at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival and was praised by French film critics, though US film critics called it "boring". André Dussollier, Rohmer is a tremendous international star. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Haydée Politoff, $0.20M, PG-13 Drama. 1950 Journal d'un scélérat Stars: The film was not completed until 1961. Rohmer said, "the presence of the lake and the mountains is stronger in color than in black and white. On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends. Rohmer said he wanted to look at "thoughts rather than actions", dealing "less with what people do than what is going on in their minds while they are doing it. "[9], Following the Moral Tales Rohmer wanted to make a less personal film and adapted a novella by Heinrich von Kleist, La Marquise d'O... in 1976. | Gross: | 7,369 Jessica Forde, Andy Gillet, The film's cinematographer Renato Berta called it "one of the most luxurious films ever made" because of the high amount of preparation put into it. Shangrila Ediciones. [9], In 1950, he co-founded the film magazine La Gazette du Cinéma with Rivette and Godard, but it was short-lived. René Schérer, a philosopher, is his brother and René Monzat, a journalist, is his son. Jess Hahn, Comedy, Romance. [3] Rohmer was a devout Catholic and "ecological zealot". Director: Rohmer's grave is located in district 13 of Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. 1,715 $0.20M, Not Rated It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. [3] The couple had two sons. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established. The fact that obsession can replace reality. [9] For years Rohmer had no telephone and refused to even get into cars, which he called "immoral pollutors. Marie Rivière, Full Moon in Paris was Rohmer's fourth installment in his Comedies and Proverbs series. [3] Hitchcock helped establish the auteur theory as a critical method and contributed to the reevaluation of the American cinema that was central to that method. [8][9] In about 1949, while living in Paris, Rohmer first began to attend screenings at Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française, where he first met and befriended Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and other members of the French New Wave. But in this film he provides us with a … | De ses débuts jusqu'à la fin de ses 60 ans de carrière. Solange Boulanger, Bruno Ganz, Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards. The film starred writer Paul Gégauff and was made with a borrowed camera. Rohmer at the Cinémathèque Française in 2004, Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, 1962–1972: Six Moral Tales and television work. Patrick Bauchau, A happy time for cinema when this kind of thing could happen. Philippe Marlaud, Rohmer's mother died without ever knowing that her son Maurice was in fact a famous film director named Éric Rohmer. | The film makes striking use of hand-painted backgrounds digitally inserted as sets, so the scenes look like living paintings. He later said, "When you show a film on TV, the framing goes to pieces, straight lines are warped...the way people stand and walk and move, the whole physical dimension...all this is lost. It was one of Rohmer's most critically acclaimed films, with many critics ranking it with My Night at Maud's and Claire's Knee. Mathieu Carrière, PG The Venice Film Festival awarded Éric Rohmer the Career Golden Lion in 2001. Tom Milne said that the film was "almost universally greeted as a disappointment, at best a whimsical exercise in the faux-naif in its attempt to capture the poetic simplicity of medieval faith, at worse an anticlimatic blunder" and that it was "rather like watching the animation of a medieval manuscript, with the text gravely read aloud while the images — cramped and crowded, coloured with jewelled brilliance, delighting the eye with bizarre perspectives — magnificently play the role traditionally assigned to marginal illuminations. It won the Golden Lion and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1986 Venice Film Festival. Fabrice Luchini, Anne-Laure Meury, Rohmer." I remember a phrase by Daniel Toscan Du Plantier the day “Les Visiteurs” opened, which eventually sold 15 million tickets: “Yes but there is this incredible film called "L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque" that sold 100,000 tickets, which may sound ridiculous in comparison, but no, because but it was only playing in one theater for an entire year." [13] These included episodes of Filmmakers of Our Time on Louis Lumiere and Carl Theodor Dreyer, educational films on Blaise Pascal and Stéphane Mallarmé, and documentaries on the Percival legend, the industrial revolution and female students in Paris. Arielle Dombasle, R "[9] For many years he was known to jog two miles to his office every morning. [8] Rohmer was educated in Paris and received an advanced degree in history. This was followed in 1981 with Le Beau Mariage (A Perfect Marriage), the second "Comedy and Proverb". Rohmer stated that "I even wonder if I could work in the usual conditions of filmmaking. Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant was not available so filming was delayed for a year. María Luisa García, The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table. $0.01M, R They were not well known until after the release of the other four. That's why they have to be narrated in the first person singular...The protagonist discusses himself and judges his actions. Rohmer was a highly literary man. André Dussollier, [9], Rohmer's best-known article was "Le Celluloid et le marbre" ("Celluloid and Marble", 1955), which examines the relationship between film and other arts. | Gross: Cyrielle Clair, 2011. | Féodor Atkine, [15], For Rohmer, these stories' characters "like to bring their motives, the reasons for their actions, into the open, they try to analyze, they are not people who act without thinking about what they are doing. [22] Director Thierry Fremaux described his work as "unique".[22]. But the socialist party lose his majority in the ... See full summary », Director: In the second of Rohmer’s moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. Stars: [20], The former Culture Minister Jack Lang said he was "one of the masters of French cinema". The color green seems to me essential in that film...This film would have no value to me in black and white. Rohmer stated that lead actress Marie Rivière "is the one who called the shots, not only by what she said, but by the way she'd speak, the way she'd question people, and also by the questions her character evoked from the others. The Popular Front wins elections, the Spanish Civil War begins, and Hitler and Stalin are manipulating and spying. Between 1964 and 1966 Rohmer made 14 shorts for television through the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) and Télévision Scolaire. In 1954 Rohmer made and acted in Bérénice, a 15-minute short based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was mostly praised by film critics, although Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote an unfavorable review and stated "I didn't like it very much."[9]. | Director: Stéphanie Crayencour, I don't feel at ease with older people...I can't get people older than forty to talk convincingly. 105 min Amanda Langlet, Virginie Thévenet, Votes: "[16] The French word "moraliste" does not translate directly to the English "moralist" and has more to do with what someone thinks and feels. | On 8 February 2010, the Cinémathèque Française held a special tribute to Rohmer which included a screening of Claire's Knee and a short video tribute to Rohmer by Jean-Luc Godard.[25]. 6,728 Sophie Renoir, Judith Chancel, Votes: Comedy, Drama, Romance. Rohmer chose to première the film on Canal Plus TV, a pay-TV station that paid $130,000 for the film, which was only one fifth of its budget. Stars: Edda Seippel, It won the Grand Prix at the San Sebastián International Film Festival,[10] the Prix Louis Delluc and the Prix Méliès, and was a huge international success. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy... See full summary », Director: Éric Rohmer Full Moon in Paris is very standard Éric Rohmer film. Amira Chemakhi, Votes: IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. 103 min Each of the films in the cycle follows the same story, inspired by F. W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927): a man, married or otherwise committed to a woman, is tempted by a second woman but eventually returns to the first. Éric Rohmer [7] He fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series. Stars: [19] The film centers on Pascal's Wager and stars Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault and Antoine Vitez. Éric Rohmer, this sensual intellectual, with his silhouette of a teacher and a walker. Rohmer stated that "what interests me is to show how someone's imagination works. "[9], The sixth and final Moral Tale was 1972's Love in the Afternoon (released as Chloe in the Afternoon in the US). Arielle Dombasle, The anachronism of … The first "Comedy and proverb" was The Aviator's Wife, which was based on an idea that Rohmer had had since the mid-1940s. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in ... See full summary », Director: The 12-minute film was co-written by and starred Jean-Luc Godard. Cécile Cassel, "[9], The fifth "Comedy and Proverb" was The Green Ray in 1986. [9] The Sign of Leo was later recut and rescored by distributors when Chabrol was forced to sell his production company, and Rohmer disowned the recut version. Five years after losing touch with a summer fling, a woman has difficulty choosing between her two suitors. He managed to infuse his film, Full Moon in Paris, with so much French culture and style, the plot takes a back seat: style triumphs over substance. After Rohmer's death in 2010, his obituary in The Daily Telegraph described him as "the most durable filmmaker of the French New Wave", outlasting his peers and "still making movies the public wanted to see" late in his career. | ", Les métamorphoses du paysage : l'ère industrielle, Les cabinets de physique : la vie de société au 18e siècle, Les histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe, Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Éric_Rohmer&oldid=1015503241, Articles with dead external links from September 2010, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with multiple identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. "[9] It was Rohmer's second film in color. The director's characters engage in long conversations—mostly talking about man-woman relationships but also on mundane issues like trying to find a vacation spot. Anne-Laure Meury, | A Perfect Marriage is only a variation on the spiritual states of the petty bourgeoise who go on and on forever about the legitimacy of certain institutions or beliefs confronted by problems of the emotions. [17]:292 He clarified, "a moraliste is someone who is interested in the description of what goes on inside man. 89 min A young student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. Françoise Fabian, Éric Rohmer The text was by Jacques Fieschi and it was a tribute to Eric Rohmer, Thank You.
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