TSPDT - Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer

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Director / Screenwriter / Editor

1920 -

Born April 4, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France

Key Production Country: France

Key Genres: Comedy of Manners, Comedy Drama, Romantic Drama, Drama, Romantic Comedy, Romance, Period Film, Urban Comedy

Key Collaborators: Margaret Menegoz (Producer), Cecile Decugis (Editor), Nestor Almendros (Cinematographer), Marie Riviere (Leading Character Player), Barbet Schroeder (Producer), Fabrice Luchini (Leading Character Player), Beatrice Romand (Leading Character Player), Mary Stephen (Editor), Rosette (Character Player), Francoise Etchegaray (Producer)

Highly Recommended: Chloe in the Afternoon (1972), The Green Ray (1986), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987), An Autumn Tale (1998)

Recommended: The Sign of Leo (1959), La Collectionneuse (1966), My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1971), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984), A Summer's Tale (1996)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ TCMDB ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Eric Rohmer: A Highly Unofficial Page ] [ Wikipedia ] [ Senses of Cinema Interview ] [ Boston Review Article (1999) ] [ Films de France ] [ Strictly Film School ]

Books: [ The Taste for Beauty ] [ Eric Rohmer (French Film Directors) ] [ Eric Rohmer: Realist and Moralist ] [ Film as Theology: Eric Rohmer ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

1,000 Greatest Films: The Sign of Leo (1959), La Collectionneuse (1966), My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1971), Chloe in the Afternoon (1972), The Marquise of O (1976), The Green Ray (1986)


	"All the literary content is peripheral to Rohmer's eye. It is in the quality of his imagery that we feel the intellectual appeal of experience. The camera style is classically simple, but Rohmer adores the effects of natural light, whether the reflections from snow in Maud, the rainy day in Claire, or the Côte d'Azur interiors in La Collectionneuse." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)

	"Emerging from the crucible of the French New Wave, Rohmer has forged a style that combines the best qualities of Bresson and Renoir with distinctive traits of the Hollywood masters. And though he was never as flamboyant as Godard or Truffaut, Rohmer's appeal has proved much hardier." - Dennis Nastav (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)

	"In their own world, Rohmer's films are guaranteed to run and run. This may be because, although they are more or less conversation pieces, they are also cleverly constructed (he always writes his own screenplays) in such a way as to keep an audience's interest alive until matters dovetail at the end, by which time most of Rohmer's characters know more about themselves than when the film began." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999)

	"An important figure in the French new wave, Rohmer is known primarily for his "moral tales," which leisurely speak of men and women, and the things they do to each other." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)