Eric Rohmer: C/D

the '80s were Rohmer's best decade.

I think that's true, with Rayon vert/Summer being the best.

I'm curious to see this, about the planned community Cergy-Pontoise which features in Boyfriends and Girlfriends. That's my favourite setting in a Rohmer film.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27enfance_d%27une_ville

looks interesting - always fascianted by Cergy (the name comes from Ypsilon in reverse due to shape of the city, I mearn rather late). "Naissance des Pieuvres" also captures that 80's (sub)urban planning vibe.

“One fine day, [lead actor Jean-Louis] Trintignant openly criticized Rohmer for paying less attention to him than to the ashtrays. To which the filmmaker replied ‘I’m less worried about you than about the ashtrays.’”

Great quote.

This is lovely. Marie Rivière and Vincent Gauthier of The Green Ray meeting again for the first time in 28 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9suLKuabI

it is indeed, thanks for sharing

I've been to that cinema, very nice

Watched the Six Moral Tales. My favorite was My Night at Maud’s. It contained so much - the inhibitions of catholicism, the sense of unburdening in experiencing an all night conversation, the confusion about another’s thoughts, the guilt over temptation, the reinforcing of a self-interested moral stance. The photography in the film was also really beautiful

it’s hard to read the movies on first viewing, they are so psychologically complex

I thought La Collectionneuse and Suzanne’s Career were also pretty great

Maud's is also one of the great Xmas movies.

yes!

can see why Hong Sang-soo is compared to Eric Rohmer, with the casual unspooling of story lines and similar relationship themes from film to film

Claire’s Knee was maybe the most beautiful of all of them visually, but it was hard for me to appreciate the story

^^ my favorite movie of 2018

if you want a time capsule of a movie, watch Full Moon in Paris, in which an old French director grapple with characters with 1980s attitudes about fashion, music, interior design, etc.

*grapples

I think you're talking about Claire's Camera Alfred (which I am looking forward to seeing!) I was referring to the 1970 film

Full Moon in Paris is on my list!

I couldn't relate to the middle aged man obsessing over teenage girls in Claire's Knee, as beautiful as it was

The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Love in the Afternoon were both good I thought. Haven’t seen any of the later Rohmer films yet

So many good films.

Haven’t seen everything single thing, but don’t think I’ve seen one that I thought was a flop

I think you're talking about Claire's Camera Alfred (which I am looking forward to seeing!) I was referring to the 1970 film

dunno how I misread your post -- you're right

All the Moral Tales and the "Comedies & Proverbs" are classics. Full Moon in Paris, Suzanne's career and the Bakery Girl of Monceau are probably my faves.
Haven't watched any of his films in a while. I'm holding off til I finally decide to splash out on the full blu-ray box set.

Love in the Afternoon is so damn sensual, Rohmer has a thing with filming proximity between people

I love every Rohmer movie, guy was a real genius

really enjoyed watching Pauline at the Beach. I love the dialogue in his films

Here's what I'd keep.

I just watched "La Collectionneuse" not two hours ago.

only seen a few but La Collectionneus didn't work for me, characters too self aware and too idle to feel consequence, where the naiveté or idealism in Maude's and The Aviator's Wife, is just so much richer.

New Year's resolution: finally watch at least one Rohmer film.

I don't think the characters are self-aware in La Collectionneuse at all, I think they're kidding themselves they are, not an uncommon occurrence in a Rohmer film. The fact that they're all horrible makes it hard to care what happens to them though.

Yeah, often in these films characters talk about themselves a lot but are not actually what you would call self-aware

Self-deluding is more like it. The narrator in La Collectionneuse is so smug, pompous and silly you almost feel like cheering when the (slimy repellent) art collector character gives him a verbal kicking.

I definitely saw Autumn and Springtime within the last few years, but for some reason I can't remember a thing about then. And I adore the other two in that series.

saw A Tale of Winter just last night, really loved it! I think it and My Night at Maud's together make a nice pair of christmas films

haven't seen The Green Ray yet, and don't really want to spend $40+ on a dvd

I associate those two as well. His (SPOILER) willingness in Tale of Winter to give his heroine the miracle she wanted is really moving, I think (although unfortunate for her other suitors.)

yes, I was surprised by how much I loved the ending

Finally got the Blu-ray box set. Can’t wait to dig back in and rewatch them all with my wife (who hasn’t seen any). I watched half of Friend of my Friend, which surprisingly didn’t really work for me any more (and really bored my wife). I think I will try the Green Ray next

which ones are in the blu ray set?

all of them!

yeah, it's comprehensive

It's got all the films, all the shorts and the various bits of TV docu stuff he did early on in his career. There's also a whole disc of shorts directed by his stable of (young, female) students (creepy?) from the mid 90's onwards.

cool, will be looking out for that...

is it this one? http://www.potemkine.fr/Potemkine-film/Coffret-eric-rohmer-l-integrale-coffret-eric-rohmer-l-integrale/pa61m3f210.html

that link doesn't work for me devvvine

are you guys talking about the 22 dvd Region B box set?

here's the google translated info

Package Content:

27 digipacks, for a total of 30 DVDs accompanied by their blu-ray declination for the 22 films restored in high definition.
A booklet of 100 pages
A surprise pouch ...
All nestled in a solid illustrated cardboard box, as well as its contents, by the drawings of Nine Antico , limited edition and numbered .

A total of 24 feature films , 9 short films including 2 unreleased short films and dozens of hours of bonus material: unpublished interviews with the actors and the closest collaborators of the filmmaker, documentary signed Eric Rohmer, documents archives .. The short films made by her actresses will be put together on two bonus DVDs .

watched Claire's Knee recently. first Rohmer I've seen. Didn't like it at all. are all of his movies just boring horny men talking forever?

I cannot tell a lie.

That's one of his least likable protagonists.

I highly recommend checking out The Green Ray, one of my favourite films ever. It's quite different.

That's part of the Six Moral Tales, although I wouldn't quite characterize it as boring horny men talking forever, (it's also 'you better marry that blonde and forget that brunette') it's more like that than his other films. People still talk forever though.

... Claire's Knee not The Green Ray, that is.