The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum, and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends, colleagues, and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward. Despite his privacy, he cared deeply about politics, religion, culture, and fostering a public appreciation of the medium he loved.
This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests and relations. The filmmaker kept in close communication with his contemporaries and competitors: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Jacques Rivette. He held a paradoxical fascination with royalist politics, the fate of the environment, Catholicism, classical music, and the French nightclub scene, and his films were regularly featured at New York and Los Angeles film festivals. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this definitive volume.
ISBN-13: 9780231175586
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 06-14-2016
Pages: 608
Product Dimensions: 7.40(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years
Antoine de Baecque is professor of the history of cinema at Paris Nanterre University. He has published biographies of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinéma.
Noël Herpe is a senior lecturer at the Université de Paris VIII. He has published works on René Clair and Sacha Guitry, as well as a book of interviews with Éric Rohmer about Rohmer’s book, Le Celluloïd et le marbre.
Table of Contents
The Mysteries of "le grand Momo"
1. Maurice Schérer's Youth: 1920–1945
2. From Schérer to Rohmer: 1945–1957
3. Under the Sign of Leo: 1959–1962
4. Under the Sign of Cahiers: 1957–1963
5. The Laboratory Period: 1963–1970
6. Four Moral Tales: 1966–1972
7. On Germany and the Pleasure of Teaching: 1969–1994
8. In Pursuit of Perceval: 1978–1979
9. Six Comedies and Proverbs: 1980–1986
10. The Rohmer of the Cities and the Rohmer of the Countryside: 1973–1995
11. In the Rhythm of the Seasons: 1989–1998
12. Filming History: 1998–2004
13. A Tale of Winter: 2006–2007
14. In Pain: 2001–2010
Notes
Index
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