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Eric Rohmer

 
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(born April 4, 1920, Nancy, France) French film director. After working as a schoolteacher, he became a founding editor of La Gazette du Cinéma in 1950 and later editor of the influential New Wave periodical Cahiers du Cinéma (1957 – 63). After directing several short films, he made a series of contes moraux ("moral tales") that included the successful films My Night at Maud's (1968), Claire's Knee (1970), and Chloe in the Afternoon (1972), sensitively observed studies of romantic love. His later films include The Marquise of O (1976), Full Moon in Paris (1984), and Autumn Tale (1999).

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French Literature Companion: Eric Rohmer
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Rohmer, Eric (b. 1920). French film-maker. Editor of Cahiers du cinéma (1957-63), Rohmer turned to directing in the early 1960s. Seen by some as the consummate exponent of cinematic marivaudage, by others as the apotheosis of pretentious Gallicism, he deals with moral and ethical issues in a style whose dry humour and reliance on dialogue are unlike that of any other director. Ma nuit chez Maud (1969), one of his Six contes moraux, marked his first major success. The more recent series of Comédies et proverbes tackles problems of marriage, cohabitation, and solitude (Le Beau Mariage, 1982; Les Nuits de la pleine lune, 1984; Le Rayon vert, 1986), suggesting that the notoriously apolitical Rohmer may still be a major ‘post-soixante-huitard’ film-maker.

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Rohmer, Eric, 1920-, French film director and writer, b. Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer. He was a founder (1950) of La Gazette du cinéma, cowrote (1957) a study of Alfred Hitchcock, and edited (1957-63) the influential journal Cahiers du cinéma. A figure in France's cinematic "New Wave," he made short films in the 1950s before directing his first feature, The Sign of Leo (1959), in which he initiated his typically calm and intellectual style, emphasizing the flow of conversation and ideas and portraying little physical action. In 1962 he began a cycle of six "moral tales" that explore relationships between men and women, achieving popular and critical success with My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1970), and Chloe in the Afternoon (1972). After two period dramas, The Marquise of O (1976) and Perceval (1978), he began another contemporary cycle, "comedies and proverbs," highlighted by the acclaimed Pauline at the Beach (1983) and Summer (1986). Rohmer's later films include his "Four Seasons" quartet (1990-98) and the historical The Lady and the Duke (2001).

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See study by C. G. Crisp (1988).

 
 

 

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