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Try Éric Rohmer for a different taste of French New Wave. He’s most well known for My Night at Maud's which is part of his “Six Moral Tales”, but my favorite of
by js2 4y ago
Try Éric Rohmer for a different taste of French New Wave. He’s most well known for My Night at Maud's which is part of his “Six Moral Tales”, but my favorite of them is La Collectionneuse.
I subscribed to Criterion a while back just to watch all six.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Rohmer_filmography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Rohmer_filmography
- pyb 4y agoHighly recommend "l'Amie de mon Ami", my favorite Rohmer. "Maud" is probably second.
- js2 4y agoAny movie that’s someone’s favorite movie is one I’ll watch. So, watching it tonight. Thanks for the rec. The only one of “Comedies and Proverbs” that I’ve seen so far is The Green Ray which is a very sweet film.
- pyb 4y agoI hope you like it!
- js2 4y agoThanks. I enjoyed it. That was a long setup for the final scene. I have to wonder if the outfits was Rohmer’s doing or if the actors decided to play a trick on him and he kept it in. I still prefer the Six Moral Tales and La Collectionneuse remains my favorite Rohmer.
- pyb 4y agoI think I particularly like this film because it is a highly structured story around feelings that can be illogical. The Green Ray is an improvised film, so the polar opposite in a way!
- js2 4y agoIf you like improvised films, you might enjoy Mike Leigh. His films are very heavy though. I don't know if I have a favorite, but Happy-Go-Lucky is as good to start with as any. His films are more structured in that he workshops them with the actors first, so maybe they are more a collaboration than improvised.
- js2 4y agoI don’t guess you’ll see this but on the off chance you do, you got me started watching the Rohmer films again and I just watched A Summer’s Tale. What a delight of a film.
- pyb 4y agoYes that's another great one. Often shown on French TV as one of the more "modern" Rohmers, and because viewers tend to appreciate the aesthetics of that film (Brittany, M. Poupaud)