Eric Rohmer: C/D

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.

Eric Rohmer's Horny Commiseration Conversation Cycle

lol

I think it's worth watching the Six Moral Tales in order to see the progression in his filmmaking

Not that The Green Ray isn't horny and miserable in its own way.

yeah I wasn't sure how to approach the Moral Tales, only one I had heard of was Claire's Knee and was thinking of just hopscotching around the rest of them. I'll check out The Green Ray next

tbh all I kept thinking was "french woody allen... french woody allen... french woody allen..." although it's maybe closer to Linklater's Before trilogy? (which I love)

Sad horny men thinking they are about to make serious moral choices, while in fact the women are doing all the choosing

he has lots of female leads?

I'm curious what's in an Eric Rohmer surprise pouch

(xp) Not in the Six Moral Tales.

XP It was flavored tea, iirc.

Yeah two teabags, some postcards and a Claire’s knee poster

Is that to do with the tea scene in Night at Maud's?

although it's maybe closer to Linklater's Before trilogy?

Keep Rohmer far away from that shit.

oooooooooooh!!

OK, The Bakery Girl of Monceau really pulled me in. I rented Suzanne's Career and My Night at Maud's today, excited to go through them + IV & VI + eventually revisit Claire's Knee.

I finally saw The Green Ray 💚

The movie or the phenomenon?

💚

it's on the criterion channel, I'm planning on watching it

the movie 😔

Green Ray's wonderful. Love the story about how they had to wait a whole year to get the titular image on film because it didn't happen the year they were actually filming.