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Category Archives: Auteur
Trois Couleurs: Blanc (Three Colours: White)
Dominique (Julie Delpy) steps out of the church into white light; she’s an unobtainable bride, too pure and too radiant to be made love to by her hapless Polish hairdresser husband. Or at least this is what Karlos’s (Zbigniew Zamachowski) … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Comedy, Comedy, French Movie Reviews
Tagged featured, Janusz Gajos, Julie Delpy, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski
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Belle de Jour (Beauty of the Day)
Corridors of erotic fantasies help Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) navigate the confines of her private and public life. Or, as the original trailer says: ‘a divorce between the soul and the flesh.’ Séverine has been married to her doctor husband, Pierre … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Gender, Melancholy, romance, Sexuality
Tagged Beauty of the Day, Belle de Jour, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Luis Buñuel, Prostitution in French cinema, Sexual Fantasies in French cinema
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La Cambrure (The Curve)
Eva is adamant she doesn’t want to be seen as an object of desire. ‘Why not an object of love?’ Roman retorts.
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Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French short film reviews, French short films, Sexuality
Tagged Aesthetics and Art in French film, Aesthetics and cinema in French cinema, Edwige Shaki, François Rauscher, La Cambrure, The Curve
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Véronique et son Cancre (Veronica and her Dunce)
Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol’s sharp arrow strikes at the heart of all that’s rotten about unimaginative teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Comedy, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, Film Review, French Cinema, French comedy-drama, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movies, French short film reviews, French short films, Movie Review, Nouvelle Vague, The New Wave
Tagged Alain Deirieu, Education in French cinema, Education in French film, Education in French movies, Nicole Berger, Stella Dassas, Véronique et son Cancre, Veronica and her Dunce
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L’Amour l’Après-Midi (Love in the Afternoon)
It’s a small, claustrophobic world in which Frédéric (Bernard Verley) moves. He has his family at home, and his work in the office. The Paris streets are busy and full of attractive women and with all the strength and passion … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Nouvelle Vague, Paris in film, Paris in the movies, romance, Sexuality, The New Wave
Tagged Bernard Verley, Eric Rohmer, Françoise Verley, Infidelity in French Cinema, L’Amour l’Après-Midi, Love in the Afternoon, Six Moral Tales, Zouzou
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Nadja à Paris
Eric Rohmer’s early short film is a sweet, fresh postcard from 1960s Paris, written and narrated by American/Yugoslav exchange student Nadja Tesich who is preparing a thesis on Proust. Rohmer devotes the full 12 minutes to Nadja walking the streets … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French short film reviews, French short films, Nouvelle Vague, Paris in film, Paris in the movies, The New Wave
Tagged Eric Rohmer, Les Femmes d'Eric Rohmer, Nadja à Paris, Nadja in Paris, Nadja Tesich, Women in the films of Eric Rohmer
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Madame Bovary
Isabelle Huppert places a sad stone in Emma Bovary, one that will never move … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Claude Chabrol, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, Literary adaptation in French cinema, Madame Bovary, Nouvelle Vague, Sexuality, The New Wave
Tagged Claude Chabrol, Gustave Flaubert, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Jean-Michel Bernard, Madame Bovary, Matthieu Chabrol
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Charlotte et Son Steak
The simple preparation of a steak by a woman intellectually resistant to the dry charm of an intense man (played by Jean-Luc Godard) comprises this neat 10-minute short, directed and written by Eric Rohmer at the very beginning of his … Continue reading
Posted in Auteur, Eric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer short film, Film Review, French Cinema, French Film, French film Review, French Movie, French Movie Reveiw, French Movie Reviews, French Movies, French short film reviews, French short films, romance
Tagged Andrée Bertrand, Cahiers du cinéma, Eric Rohmer, French Cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, Nouvelle vague in Switzerland, Stéphane Audran
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