For the final instalment in his series of six films entitled Comédies et proverbes
, Eric Rohmer takes has his starting point the adage that "my friend’s friend is also
my friend"... [More...]
Having completed his film cycle Comédies et proverbes and before starting
his next cycle Contes des quatres saisons, Eric Rohmer wrote and directed this
enchanting film which comprises four modern parables about... [More...]
Conte de printemps is the first instalment in Eric Rohmer’s four-part cycle entitled
Contes des quatre saisons (The Four Seasons Tales). All four films
involve a romantic theme played against a particular season... [More...]
The second of four films in Rohmer’s Four Seasons cycle, Conte d’hiver is a fine example
of post-New Wave French romantic cinema. It illustrates perfectly Rohmer’s gift
for telling a simple story in... [More...]
A very topical film, Rohmer’s satire of some of the absurdities of French regional politics
is very witty and surprisingly fresh. The notion that a mayor can find it easier
to obtain funding for a grotesque white... [More...]
Less substantial than Rohmer’s other films, Les Rendez-vous de Paris is nonetheless
an engaging diversion, comprising three loosely connected tales of romantic trysts... [More...]
The third film in Rohmer’s ambitious Four Seasons cycle is a sunny tale about one
man’s faltering quest for a summer romance. Filmed on the picturesque Brittany coastline
in glorious summer sunshine... [More...]
This is the final chapter in Rohmer’s ambitious Four Seasons cycle of films, and in many
ways it is the sunniest and most entertaining. As we have come to expect of Rohmer... [More...]
In perhaps one of his most surprising films to date, Eric Rohmer offers us this unusual
portrayal of life in France during one of the darkest periods in her history... [More...]
Eric Rohmer’s fourth period drama (which comes straight after his widely acclaimed
L’Anglaise
et le Duc, 2001) is this compelling political thriller set on the eve of World War
II... [More...]
Les Amours d'Astrée et de
Céladon has been presented as Eric Rohmer's final
film. If this is so, it is an appropriate close to the career of
the oldest and arguably greatest of the surviving New Wave directors... [More...]
