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Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (French: [eʁik ʁomɛʁ]; 21 March 1920 [a] – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.
Laurent Schérer, the younger of Maurice’s two sons, said that his father kept his family and his work apart (“I did not grow up as the son of a filmmaker”). A notable exception, blurring the line between identities: Rohmer invited Mme. Schérer’s advice about some editing cruxes in Full Moon in Paris and Summer.
Jun 16, 2016 · Yet his wife, Thérèse Schérer, and their sons, Laurent and Denis Schérer, didn’t meet his closest work associates until January 1, 2010—at his deathbed.
Apr 4, 2010 · Rohmer’s six tales are constructed as variations on a theme, all featuring young male protagonists in pursuit of unfulfilled desires with distracting temptresses, while in the background looms the impossible and often arbitrary object of love that these men are convinced must embody their true path.
Eric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920 - January 11, 2010) was a screenwriter and director and a key figure in French New Wave cinema. He began writing film criticism in the late 1940’s and was, for some years, the editor of Cahiers du Cinema.
The Cinema of Eric Rohmer combines history and criticism, and offers in-depth analysis of the themes and ideas in each of Rohmer’s twenty-three films, illustrating the complexity of their cinematic style and their non-stop engagement with reality, providing a timely rebuttal to Harry Moseby.
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Delicate and jazzy, The Bakery Girl of Monceau, the first entry in the Six Moral Tales series, evinces stirrings of what would become the Eric Rohmer style: unfussy naturalistic shooting, ironic first-person voice-over, and an “unknowable” woman.
