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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. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established.
Éric Rohmer (born April 4, 1920?, Tulle?, France—died January 11, 2010, Paris) was a French motion-picture director and writer who was noted for his sensitively observed studies of romantic passion. Rohmer was an intensely private man who provided conflicting information about his early life.
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According to Eric Rohmer, A Tale of Summer is the most autobiographical film that he made. Based on events from Rohmer’s youth, this installment of Tales of the Four Seasons follows amateur musician Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) to a seaside resort in Dinard, on the coast of Brittany.
Jan 12, 2015 · This ballot sent to Sight & Sound magazine for their second ever once-a-decade poll to determine the greatest films ever made reveals the 10 favourite films of Eric Rohmer in 1961. At this point, Rohmer was known as a film critic for the Parisian journal Cahiers du Cinéma.
Mar 24, 2021 · Rohmer, who was seventy when he made the film, was interested in intergenerational dynamics and their psychological implications—including symbolic (and solely symbolic) evocations of incest.
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 ...
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Few directors in the history of cinema have so closely and revealingly observed the inner psychological workings of their characters as Eric Rohmer. Indeed he once described himself as being “less interested in what people do, than with what is going on in their minds while they are doing it.”
