Eric Rohmer’s first full length film is this tragicomic tale of one man’s spiral descent
into poverty and isolation. Whilst the film shows Rohmer’s inexperience as a filmmaker
too clearly and also suffers... [More...]
The first of Eric Rohmer’s Six contes moraux provides an engaging portrait of male indecision
and illustrates perhaps more clearly than in the other five films Rohmer’s premise for
the series.
The central... [More...]
The first of Eric Rohmer’s Six contes moraux provides an engaging portrait of male indecision
and illustrates perhaps more clearly than in the other five films Rohmer’s premise for
the series.
The central... [More...]
In the second of his Six contes moraux, Eric Rohmer paints an all too believable portrait
of adolescent vice and vulnerability whilst pursuing the central linking theme of a moral
dilemma concerning love and desire... [More...]
By the mid-1960s, there were signs that the French New Wave had all but
run its course. Its leading lights – François Truffaut,
Jean-Luc Godard... [More...]
Eric Rohmer’s third film in his series of Six Contes Moraux is similar in style
to the first two shorter films (La
Boulangère de monceau and La
Carrière de Susanne)... [More...]
The third in Eric Rohmer’s series of six “contes moraux” (morality tales) explores the
issue of freewill and the ability of one human being to choose his destiny in spite of
competing external influences... [More...]
The fifth of Rohmer’s six Moral Tales closely parallels the preceding tale Ma
nuit chez Maud as it portrays a man who is betrothed to one woman but is tempted by
another... [More...]
Eric Rohmer brings his series of six moral tales to a close with L’Amour l’après-midi
, a charming romantic comedy which is as much a conventional bourgeois satire as a
characteristically Rohmeresque... [More...]
Eric Rohmer’s second historical film (after Die Marquise von O…) is his most provocative
and uncharacteristic work to date. It is based on a Twelfth century poem by the
French writer Chrétien de Troyes... [More...]
The first in Eric Rohmer’s series Comédies et proverbes is this enchanting
portrait of love, jealousy and suspicion. As in most of Rohmer’s works... [More...]
The second of Eric Rohmer’s Comédies et proverbes, Le Beau mariage
is a wryly satirical romantic comedy where the central heroine, a headstrong middle-class
young woman... [More...]
The third in Eric Rohmer’s series Comédies et proverbes is this light comedy
of summer romance, in which Rohmer explores the conflicting desires between men and women... [More...]
He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two houses loses his mind. This
is the proverb around which the fourth film in Eric Rohmer’s series of Comédies
et proverbes is based... [More...]
Arguably the most visually poetic of Rohmer’s films in his series of Comédies
et Proverbes, Le Rayon vert is an engaging, wistful tale which easily evokes
the sense of yearning and isolation which marks many... [More...]
