Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer , of his true name Jean Marie Maurice Schérer , born the April 4th 1920 with Tulle (Corrèze), is a realizer of Cinéma French. He is the brother of the philosopher Rene Schérer and the father of the French journalist Rene Monzat.

Biography

Rohmer is initially professor of letters, Germanist and writer. It publishes a novel, Elisabeth , in 1946, under the pseudonym of Gilbert Cordier.

Rohmer writes then for various reviews, and founds the Gazette of the cinema where it becomes acquainted with Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, François Truffaut, or Claude Chabrol - with which it signs in 1957 a book on Alfred Hitchcock.

This group moves initially towards criticism, within the Cahiers of the cinema , whose Rohmer becomes editor association of 1957 to 1963.

They quickly will found what will become “the New wave”. In 1959 it carries out its first feature film, the Sign of the lion , a film with the very innovative aspect (astonishing, for the time, in its digressions and its direction of the slow rate/rhythm), left without much success three years later. In 1962, it creates with Barbet Schroeder, the company the Films of the Rhombus, which will produce the majority of its films.

The same year, it starts a cycle of six films baptized Moral Contes . They are sentimental intrigues on expensive topics with the scenario writer (love and chance, the destiny), on a common groundwork: the choice of the woman, the temptation of the inaccuracy then the return towards elected. Its style will make also its mark, between depth, refinement and lightness. The dialogs are often sophisticated there and very arts persons. Its direction of actor is purified enough and his setting in simple and effective scene. My night at Maud (1969), and the Knee of Claire (1970, Price Louis-Delluc) are particularly noticed.

To note that for reasons of production, the third tale, My Night at Maud , was turned in 1969 after the fourth the Collector in 1967.

The Comedies and Proverbes form second major cycle, where each film illustrates with its manner a sentence drawn from popular wisdom, invented for the needs for the cause if necessary.

In this series, the green Ray (1986), partly impromptu film obtains the Lion of Gold to Venice

The Années 1990 are marked by the Contes the four seasons , in which the scenario writer continues his exploration of the plays and the chances in love.

At the same time, it carries out films out of its series, like the Marchioness of O (1976, according to Heinrich von Kleist), Perceval the Welshman (1979, according to Chrétien of Troyes) or the 4 adventures of Rennet and Mirabelle (1987).

Rohmer is a perfect example of the Cinéma of author to the Frenchwoman by writing only her scenarios that they original or are adapted literary works like the Marchioness of O (1976) or Perceval the Welshman (1978).

It often chooses young unknown actors but also called upon actors experienced like Jean-Louis Trintignant ( My night at Maud , 1969) or André Dussollier ( the Good match , 1982).

Eric Rohmer revealed Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory and Fabrice Luchini, which became large actors of the French cinema.

Rohmer is very discrete on its private life and continuous, with more than 85 years, an intense career. It has a son, the journalist Rene Monzat.

Catalog of films

(the figures identify films which belongs to the “series” of Rohmer)

Short films

  • Newspaper of a scélérat (1950)
  • Presentation or Charlotte and her steak (1951)
  • model little girls (1952)
  • Bérénice (1954)
  • the Sonata with Kreutzer (1956)
  • Veronique and her dunce (1958)
  • Nadja in Paris (1964)
  • Paris seen by… , sketch Place of the Star (1965)
  • a coed of today (1966)
  • Farm in Montfaucon (1967)
  • Wolf, there are you? (1983)
  • the camber (1999)

Feature-length films

Six moral tales

  1. the Baker of Heap (1962)
  2. the Career of Suzanne (1963)
  3. My night at Maud (1969)
  4. the Collector (1967)
  5. the Knee of Claire (1970), Price Louis-Delluc
  6. Love the afternoon (1972)

  • the Marchioness of O… (1976)

  • Perceval the Welshman (1978), Price Méliès

Comedies and proverbs

  1. the Woman of the aviator or “One could think of nothing” , antithesis of the work of Musset, One could not think of all , (1981)
  2. the Good match , “Which spirit does not beat the countryside which does not make castle in Spain” of the Fountain, (1982)
  3. Pauline with the beach , “Which too much word, it mesfait” of Chrétien of Troyes, (1982)
  4. the Nights of the full moon , “ Who has two women loses his heart, which has two houses loses its reason” , proverb of the province of Champagne, (1984)
  5. the green Ray , “That time comes where the hearts éprennent” , towards extracts from the poem Chanson from the highest tower from Arthur Rimbaud, (1986)
  6. the Friend of my friend , proverb “the friends of my friends are my friends” , (1987)

The Tales the four seasons

1. Tale of spring (1990)
2. Tale of winter (1992)
3. Tale of summer (1996)
4. Tale of autumn (1998)

Historical dramas

Telefilm

  • 1989 : the Board games

Family

Bibliography: works of Eric Rohmer

  • the House of Elisabeth , 1946, republication 2007, Gallimard, Paris.
  • the trio in E flat (theater), 1988, Actes Sud Papers.
  • Of Mozart in Beethoven , test on the concept of depth in music, 1998, Actes Sud.
  • Organization of space in Faust de Murnau , 2000, Small Bibilothèque (Pocket).

See too

External bonds

  • Eric Rohmer, taste of the beauty
  • Eric Rohmer on ecrannoir.fr
  • Interview at the time of the exit of '' the English one and the Duke ''
  • private Site dedicated

Sources

  • http://nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr/rohmer.htm

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