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Éric Rohmer. 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. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established.
Jan 17, 2010 · By David Denby. January 17, 2010. Illustration by Kyle T. Webster. On a very cold day in New York, in February, 1971, when the streets were black with ice, and my mood was black, too—a love...
Jan 11, 2010 · Eric Rohmer died today in Paris at the age of eighty-nine. The quiet elegance of his films is so self-evident that it often overshadows (entirely by Rohmer’s careful and deep design) their...
Jun 16, 2016 · Though Rohmer’s actresses (and often his actors, too) were put in the position of fusing their personal lives with their onscreen identities, Rohmer himself—even when his films had strongly...
Dec 14, 2012 · Eric Rohmer 89, one of the founders of the French New Wave died Monday Jan. 11 in Paris. The group , which inaugurated modern cinema, included Jean-Pierre Melville , Francois Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard , Claude Chabrol , Agnes Varda , Alain Resnais , Jacques Rivette and Louis Malle .
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) and Suzanne's Career (1963) are unremarkable black-and-white pictures that best function as blueprints for his later output. They also mark the beginning of a business partnership with Barbet Schroeder, who starred in the former of the two.
Rohmer was born (in 1920) Maurice Schérer and, under that name, conducted his life as a teacher and a bourgeois family man in parallel with his life as a filmmaker. His mother died in 1970 without ever having known that her son was already a famous film director.
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