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Eric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer, April 4, 1920, Nancy, France) is a French film director. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinema. April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ...
1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
Nancy (pronounced in French) is a city and commune which is the préfecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in the Lorraine région of northeastern France. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
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Cahiers du cin ma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by Andr Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca. ...
Scherer fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series. Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 - May 12, 1957) was a filmmaker and actor, noted for his arrogant Teutonic character parts. ...
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. ...
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Rohmer was the last of the French New Wave directors to become established, working as the editor of the Cahiers du Cinema periodical from 1957 to 1963, while most of his Cahiers colleagues (among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut) were making their name in international cinema. ...
Cahiers du cin ma is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by Andr Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Lo Duca. ...
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Early career
His beginnings as a film director were halting, not completing his first feature, Le Signe Du Lion until 1959, and making little impact with it.
It was with his cycle of films entitled Six Moral Tales that his career began to take off. The first, La Boulangere de Monceau lasts 20 minutes, the second 60 minutes, the rest are feature-length. Each tale follows the same basic story, inspired by F.W. Murnau's Sunrise - a man, married or otherwise committed to a woman, is tempted by a second woman, but ultimately resists the temptation. It was the third in the series (but the fourth to be filmed), Ma Nuit Chez Maud (1969) that brought international recognition and the following film, Le Genou De Claire, secured it. F W Murnau Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential directors of the silent film era. ...
Sunrise over the sea Sunrise, also called sunup in some American English dialects, is the time at which the first part of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. ...
Later professional life Rohmer's films invariably concentrate on intelligent, articulate protagonists who nevertheless frequently fail to own up to their real desires and it is the contrast between what they say and what they do that fuels much of the drama in his films.
Following the Moral Tales, Rohmer made two period films - Die Marquise von O... (1976) from a novella by Heinrich von Kleist and Perceval le Gallois (1978), based on a 12th century manuscript by Chrétien de Troyes. A highly literary man, Rohmer's films frequently refer to ideas and themes in plays and novels, such as references to Jules Verne (in The Green Ray), Shakespeare (in A Winter's Tale) and Pascal's Wager (in Ma Nuit Chez Maud). Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 - November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist and novelist. ...
Chrétien de Troyes wrote in Champagne, France, during the last half of the twelfth century. ...
Jules Verne. ...
William Shakespeare—born April 1564; baptised April 26, 1564; died April 23, 1616 (O.S.), May 3, 1616 (N.S.)—has a reputation as the greatest of all writers in English. ...
Blaise Pascal argued that it is a better bet to believe in God than not to do so. ...
He then embarked on a second series, the Comedies And Proverbs, each one based on a different proverb. This was followed by a third series in the 1990s: Tales Of The Four Seasons. Recently Rohmer, now well into his 80s, has turned once again to period drama with The Lady And The Duke and Triple Agent.
Selected filmography Six Moral Tales: - La Boulangère de Monceau (1963)
- La Carrière de Suzanne (1963)
- La Collectioneuse/The Collector (1967)
- Ma Nuit Chez Maud/My Night at Maud's (1969) Academy Award nomination for best foreign film
- Le Genou De Claire/Claire's Knee (1970)
- L'Amour, L'Apres Midi/Love In the Afternoon (1971)
Comedies and proverbs: My Night at Mauds is a 1969 film by Eric Rohmer. ...
- La Femme de l'Aviateur/The Aviator's Wife (1981) Proverb: "It is impossible to think about nothing."
- Le Beau mariage/A Good Marriage (1982) Proverb: "Can anyone refrain from building castles in Spain?"
- Pauline à la Plage/Pauline At The Beach (1983) Proverb: "He who talks too much will hurt himself."
- Nuits de la Pleine Lune/Full Moon In Paris (1984) Proverb: "He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind."
- Le Rayon vert/The Green Ray/Summer (1986)
- 'Ami de mon Amie/My Girlfriend's Boyfriend/Boyfriends And Girlfriends (1987) Proverb: "My friends' friends are my friends."
Tales Of The Four Seasons: - Conte de Printemps/A Tale Of Springtime (1990)
- Conte d'Hiver/A Winter's Tale (1992)
- Conte d'Eté/A Summer's Tale (1996)
- Conte d'Automne/A Tale Of Autumn (1998)
Other, non-series, films: - Die Marquise von O... (1976)
- Perceval Le Gallois (1978)
- 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (1987)
- L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993)
- Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995)
- L'anglaise et le duc/The Lady And The Duke (2001) an account of part of the life of Grace Elliott
- Triple agent (2004)
Grace Elliot (1754?–1823). ...
A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ...
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