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Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 21-AUG-06

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SMOOTH OPERATOR -- The four feature films that Eric Rohmer directed between 1966 and 1972, "La Collectionneuse," "My Night at Maud's," "Claire's Knee," and "Love in the Afternoon," brought him international renown, based largely on their misinterpretation as placid, cerebral diversions. A new boxed set of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" (Criterion), which includes these four features, a remarkable brace of...

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