The 1969 film "Ma Nuit chez Maud" catapulted its shy academic
film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling
over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an
Academy Award. "Ma Nuit chez Maud" remains his most famous film,
the highlight of an impressive range of films examining the sexual,
romantic, and artistic mores of contemporary France, the
temptations of desire, the small joys of everyday life, and
sometimes, the vicissitudes of history and politics. Yet Rohmer was
already forty years old when Maud was released and had already had
a career as the editor of "Cahiers du Cinema," a position he lost
in a political takeover in 1963. The interviews in this book offer
a range of insights into the theoretical, critical, and practical
circumstances of Rohmer's remarkably coherent body of films, but
also allow Rohmer to act as his own critic, providing us with an
array of readings concerning his interest in setting, season,
color, and narrative.
Alongside the application of a theoretical rigor to his own
films, Rohmer's interviews also discuss directors as varied as
Godard, Carne, Renoir, and Hitchcock, and the relations of film to
painting, architecture, and music. This book reproduces
little-known interviews, such as a debate Rohmer undertakes with
Women and Film concerning feminism, alongside detailed discussions
from "Cahiers" and "Positif," many produced in English here for the
first time."
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