Eric Rohmer: C/D

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i mean the whole point of the character is to be seductive, but she's startingly effective, especially when she starts playing with her bead necklace

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:44 (nineteen years ago) link

startLingly

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:44 (nineteen years ago) link

or when she gives françois a high five, that's awesome

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link

she makes a lot of eye contact, i think in real life she would scare me

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

i still am not sure what i think of rohmer...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

He's a classic, like you said up top. I'd write more but I gotta pack.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Cur-lassic!

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:32 (nineteen years ago) link

watched 'triple agent' a cpl of weeks ago - and 'summer's tale' shown on BBC4 recently...the whole thing is tidy, a timeline is followed (does this plotting happen in all of his movies?). Its all v stage-y and v straight and v dry, he'sinto that...there's no dramatic energy to push the story along but he somehow involves you with dialogue, but making sure there's no emotional investment (esp in 'triple agent')...you expect a lot more to happen than it does.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

'tidy' - this is true.

I liked that thing with people walking about in paintings.

Or was that somebody else?

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link

you thinkin' of "lady and the duke"?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It was called 'The Englishwoman and the Duke', I think, although she was Scottish. I assume it's the same one.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 December 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

it was called "lady and the duke" in the usa, and "l'anglaise et le duc" in france.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Somehow that reminds me of the Truffaut movie known as "Two English Girls" in English or "Les deux anglaises et le continent" in French. In this case "anglaises" is fully translated but they had to chop off the rest of the title to fit it in.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 24 December 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

anne-laure meury :

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005N9GF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never seen a Rohmer film, where should I start?

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

La Carriere de Suzanne. But where did you get your name: Tous les garcons s'appellent...? (I think Rohmer and Godard made that together.)

― youn, Friday, 31 December 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

amst/youn，have you seen jean eustache's "la maman et la putain"?

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

adam you should see "claire's knee" and maybe "my night at maud's" first.

c0zen: no, but i should.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i want someone to agree with me that anne-laure meury is cute

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

she is very very cute, of course.

I watched 'la maman et la putain' earlier in the year, at the cinema no less. I think it's the first film I've watched with an intermission. everyone should see it.

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

whoa. intermission??? i've seen 6-hour films without an intermission! and i used to walk two miles to school every day. kids these days...

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 31 December 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you should save My Night at Maud's until the end or near the end.

― youn, Friday, 31 December 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

La Collectioneuse may remind you of ILX.

― youn, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

1. La collectionneuse (1967)
2. La carriere de Suzanne (1963)
3. Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick (1959)
4. La femme de l'aviateur (1981)
5. Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)

might be a good start, but if you think you're going to stick around for more, put off 5. Of his films on the four seasons, I think I like Conte de printemps best.

― youn, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I think you should save My Night at Maud's until the end or near the end
Sure, why not wait until the end- the characters did. Or did they?

I actually like this one a lot. Great photography of snowy French streets in the Old Town by the late great Nestor Almendros.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I love thinking of songs for those scenes, e.g., "Joseph Cornell" by the Clientele.

I might watch Conte d'Automne again, if I manage to see Sideways.

Here is a detailed review: Magical Realism in Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale, 1998).

― youn, Monday, 10 January 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Totally classic, and sure to be lost on Kevin Smith fans.

"Summer (Le Rayon Vert)" is transcendent, his best of the last 25 years. And Melvil Poupaud in "A Summer's Tale" is just sex on legs.

"Triple Agent" is quite moribund, alas.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 January 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

agreed, but opposite: 'green ray' is hella dull; 'triple agent' one of his funniest [sic] films.

― henry miller, Monday, 10 January 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

I think I have still only seen one rohmer film tho surely not.

I really would like to see more.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

wtf eight film box set?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 14 May 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

the french rohmer box sets rule, it sucks that there are no english subtitles.

cozen i'd advise seeing marquise of o!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:22 (eighteen years ago) link

that box set looks awesome, want to buy me a copy??

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to buy myself a copy first!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link

i love "the lady and the duke" dearly but i've never seen anything else.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:21 (eighteen years ago) link

by eric rohmer.

― g e o f f (gcannon), Sunday, 15 May 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I was washing my hands in the bathroom after work yesterday and thought of the scene in The Aviator's Wife when the young man who works for the postal service is also washing his hands after work and of the part in L'Etranger when Meursault notes to himself how pleasant it is when the towel in the washroom is dry and then I had the strange feeling of being adrift.

― youn, Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

"Summer," "Chloe in the Afternoon " (underrated), "An Autumn's Tale," "A Winter's Tale," and "The Lady and the Duke" are marvelous.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"Le Rayon Vert" (Summer) is a bit sub-par IMHO and probably the weakest of the 'Comédies et Proverbes' cycle, my favorite of which is "L'ami de mon amie" (can't remember the English title, The Friend of my Friend?). I especially love all the images of the modernist 70's utopia of Cergy-Pontoise.

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Amateurist, she is very cute. She reminds me a bit of a softer Julia Sawalha.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

The actor I always think of when I think of Rohmer is Fabrice Luchini. The actress I always think of is Bulle Ogier's daughter Pascale, who won some awards for Full Moon Over Paris and then suffered a fatal attack before she made it to the age of 28.

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Pascale Ogier died at 27??? I completely forgot 'Full Moon'. Might be his best actually. I love the scene with Lucchini asking for a minute to write down something in the café.

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

L'Anglaise et le Duc is showing at the Whitney Humanities Center in New Haven at 7 tonight. See you there!!

― youn, Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I hope the duck wins.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 October 2005 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1775331,00.html

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

next, Dave Chappelle remakes Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

that's sort of great (the chris rock thing)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link

what the hell...

― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

I'm currently watching the Seasons Tales cycle. i'm thinking that Summer Tale might be the best of the lot. It seems to be the perfect summary of all the themes running through Rohmer's work: chance and coincidence, deceit and self-deceit, moral cowardice, controlling or gambling.

― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been trying to rent le rayon vert but nobody has it anywhere.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Friday, 22 September 2006 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Anyone seen the new one that's going to be at the NYFF? Being called his last in the fest blurb.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 28 August 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link

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Criterion Rohmer selection okay at the moment. MUBI US has an interesting Maurice Pialat series going on right now.

― Rated “Blecchs” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link

it exists on my phone

the other bits are on my phone with it but i DISDANE them

― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link

Wait you guys don’t get Criterion?

Nope.

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link

If you use a VPN, get a new email address and take out a trial using a debit card, you can use it for a fortnight until it works out your card is not in the US.

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link

or so I heard.... (it worked last year)

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link

or you can Venmo me your money and I'll see about getting you access.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link

(Youth and age make one vulnerable (from naivete or nostalgia). This is incurred as life experience and observed with pathos held in reserve and without intrusion or judgment, not sardonically or cruelly and if familiar not overly so but with fondness and keenness for experience.)

― youn, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:38 (one year ago) link

I don't have the services mentioned, but I have these films on DVD.

FWIW I quite like these seasonal tales and I think I enjoy Summer best.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link

I have them on dvd too

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link

I don't subscribe, but I noticed that Metrograph's streaming service ($5/month or $50/year) has three Rohmer films: "The Aviator's Wife," "Boyfriends and Girlfriends," and "Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." It sounds like you can cancel your membership anytime, so you could just watch all their streaming stuff for one month for $5. Pretty interesting selection: https://metrograph.com/at-home/

― ernestp, Thursday, 6 October 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link

"Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle." is my fave Rohmer. Indeed, one of my fave films by anybody.

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 6 October 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link

five months pass...

Tales of the Four Seasons streaming on Criterion Channel.

god I love Melvil Poupaud.

― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 April 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link

If my favourite Rohmer isn't La Collectioneuse, it's one of the medieval films. The appeal of the rest escapes me, it's pleasant at best.

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link

Could never get into the costumed ones at all (except maybe Triple Agent). They seemed to miss the point of what made his films great - eg the minute dissection of every fray micro-dramas

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 07:37 (one year ago) link

The Lady and the Duke has more tension than his other films.

― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 09:19 (one year ago) link

seven months pass...

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmers-tales-of-the-four-seasons

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:44 (five months ago) link

one month passes...

Love the bit in "Le Rayon Vert" where Delphine walks by a group of people discussing Jules Verne and decides to eavesdrop on them - because she heard the word "green" mentioned, I assume. It's absolutely vital to the film but it's done in such a casual way, the conversation is so natural, the people are plainly not actors. Then having the one old guy there get up and mansplain the physics of the green ray is just perfect.

― Little Billy Love (Tom D.), Monday, 8 January 2024 22:36 (three months ago) link

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