Éric Rohmer : A Biography / Noël Herpe, Antoine de Baecque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baecque, Antoine de, author.

Herpe, Noël, author.

Contributor:

Neal, Lisa.

Rendall, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rohmer, Éric, 1920-2010.

Rohmer, Éric.

Motion picture producers and directors--France--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (670 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780231541572

0231541570

OCLC:

948826674