Éric Rohmer

Eric ROHMER (1920-2010, France) was an actor, writer, and filmmaker. He earned his degree in History and taught before he began writing in the mid-1940s. In 1950, he made his first short film Journal d’un scélérat. He was the founder of La Gazette du Cinéma in 1950, along with François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jacques Rivette. In 1957, he joined André Bazin’s Cahiers du Cinéma as editor-in-chief. He was a member of the French New Wave. In 1959, he made his first feature film Le Signe du lion/The Sign of Leo. Later he made a series of Six Moral Tales: The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963), Suzanne’s Career (1963), The Collector (1967), My Night at Maud’s (1969), Claire’s Knee (1970), and Love in the Afternoon (1972). His films have been screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, were nominated for multiple awards including the Oscars (1969), and have won numerous prizes, such as Best Film at San Sebastián International Film Festival (1970) and the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival (1976). He passed away in 2010 at the age of 89.

Filmography

(selection) Journal d’un scélérat (1950, short), La sonate à Kreutzer/The Kreutzer Sonata (1956), Le signe du lion/The Sign of Leo (1959), La boulangère de Monceau/The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962), La carrière de Suzanne/Suzanne's Career (1963), Nadja à Paris/Nadja in Paris (1964), La collectionneuse/The Collector (1967), Ma nuit chez Maud/My Night at Maud’s (1969), Le genou de Claire/Claire’s Knee (1970), L’amour l’après-midi/Love in the Afternoon (1972), Die Marquise von O/The Marquise of O (1975), Perceval le Gallois/Perceval (1978), La femme de l’aviateur/The Aviator’s Wife (1980), Le beau mariage/A Good Marriage (1981), Pauline à la plage/Pauline at the Beach (1982), Les nuits de la pleine lune/Full Moon in Paris (1984), Le rayon vert/The Green Ray (1986), L’ami de mon amie/My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (1987), 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle/Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1986), Conte de printemps/A Spring’s Tale (1990), Conte de l’hiver/A Winter’s Tale (1991), L’arbre, le maire et la médiathèque/The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993), Les rendez-vous de Paris/Rendez-vous in Paris (1995), Conte d’été/A Summer’s Tale (1996), Conte d’automne/An Autumn’s Tale (1998), L’Anglaise et le Duc/The Lady and the Duke (2001), Triple agent (2003), Les amours d’Astrée et de Céladon/The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)

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