Tag Archives: Eric Rohmer

Submarine – A journey through a genre.

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Submarine is a coming of age story based on the novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne. It serves as the directorial debut for Richard Ayoade. There is a scene in this very sweet film that flows thusly: “It’s rude to leave a film before it’s finished.” “who to?” “to the filmmakers.” “how are […]

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Love in the Afternoon: Rohmer and the end of Six moral tales.

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I’ve had reason to pop back and watch some Eric Rohmer lately, a joy and a pleasure I hardly have the words for. The first time I saw this film it sparked a wonderful conversation I remember very well that I will draw on when writing this review. I love this film so much. The […]

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My Night at Maud’s – Eric Rohmer and the spirit of the Nouvelle Vague

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In  François Truffaut’s famously scathing essay about the state of the French Film in 1954 entitled “A certain tendency of French Cinema”  published in Cahiers du Cinéma, Truffaut writes about the unoriginality of the high prestige  “tradition of quality” films produced in France. He points out they are usually plodding adaptations with formulaic, anti-clerical and anti-bourgeois messages, […]

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