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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 short films, and fascinating printed extras, suggests that the misunderstanding has occurred strictly according to plan.
Rohmer was born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in 1920, and took his alias for his film-related work in 1950 at the Cine-Club of the Latin Quarter, a crucial breeding ground for the French New Wave. Just as Scherer's life was taken over by his pseudonymous career, his films' distinctive style came to usurp their substance. Though Rohmer shows intelligent people behaving--and, above all, talking--with reasoned refinement, he hides an inner world of violently raging desires beneath his characters' intellectual games. In effect, Rohmer is a secret Sadean, a Surrealist manque.
The first shots of "La Collectionneuse" suggest the frenzy at the core of Rohmer's art: close-ups of the bikini-clad body of the adolescent Haydee Politoff, the man-collector of the title. Yet the film's sunlit, Impressionist beachside ...
- Eric Rohmer in the '90S: Seasonal Variations On The Conte Moral.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: West Virginia University Philological Papers Warehime, Marja September 22, 2000 700+ words
...conte moral, but Eric Rohmer has kept the genre alive. (1) The genre attracted Rohmer from the start; his first commercial successes, La Collectionneuse and Ma Nuit chaz Maud...More recently however, Rohmer has abandoned the series...
- Chatter box; DVD set of Eric Rohmer's"Six Moral Tales".(SHOW)(FROM THE VAULTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 18, 2006 700+ words
...adroit trio in color, Mr. Rohmer doesn't want a score to...Louis is typical of Mr. Rohmer's characters in being in...Frederic, while Haydee, "La Collectionneuse" ("The Collector...happiness bores me." Mr. Rohmer's self-centered men are...
- French cinema's sun king. (French filmmaker Eric Rohmer)
- Magazine article from: Interview Fuller, Graham July 1, 1998 700+ words
Eric Rohmer has made a slew of quietly...beautiful coastal resorts. La Collectionneuse (1966), Claire's Knee...Wave in the early '60s, Rohmer is a scrupulously anti...reality. At the seaside, Rohmer revels in the confluence...
- Rohmer gets much-deserved Criterion treatment.
- Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) August 10, 2006 700+ words
...dreams with the films of Eric Rohmer. The St. Louis PBS affiliate...Criterion makes by releasing Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" on...Claire's Knee," "La Collectionneuse," "Love in the Afternoon...Barbet Schroeder; a handful of Rohmer's shorts; archival interviews...
- Rohmer's 2-D Revolution In an Empty, Painted Paris.(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) October 15, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Andrew Sarris Eric Rohmer's The Lady and the Duke, from Mr. Rohmer's screenplay, based on Grace Elliott's memoir...emerge from the New York Film Festival. For Mr. Rohmer's most fervent admirers, like me, it seems at...
- New Wave makes waves again: Eric Rohmer films aim for a new...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 9, 2001 700+ words
The films of Eric Rohmer are returning to the big screen, and...cheer. The event is called "Tales of Rohmer," and it's a well-planned package...hope, this traveling show will make Rohmer's name as familiar to young viewers...
- First look: 'The Lady and the Duke' - Eric Rohmer's first digital feature.
- Magazine article from: Film Comment Lovejoy, Alice Bonnaud, Frederic September 1, 2001 700+ words
...with the estimable Autumn Tale, Eric Rohmer returns to the genre of costume literary...representation. Twenty-three years later, Rohmer has used the hitherto completely unknown...extensive use of the guillotine and mob rule. Rohmer has grounded the story of Grace (Lucy...
- Rohmer's light, sure hand warms `A Tale of Winter'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Jay Carr, Globe Staff March 25, 1994 700+ words
...WINTER Directed and written by: Eric Rohmer Starring: Charlotte Very, Frederic Van...French, subtitles) Unrated All of Eric Rohmer's comedies are about sex. Their characters...In "A Tale of Winter," the second in Rohmer's new series of comedies keyed to the...
