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Éric Rohmer
Director 1920 - 2010

Éric Rohmer

Tulle, Corrèze, France

Éric Rohmer (March 21, 1920 – January 11, 2010) was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma. Description above from the Wikipedia article Éric... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

28 titles
Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon

Les amours d'Astrée et de Céladon

Éric Rohmer 2007 1h 49m 5.0

A romantic drama centered around a young shepherd and shepherdess and the ramifications of their forbidden affair.

Triple agent

Triple agent

Éric Rohmer 2004 1h 55m 7.0

Parigi, 1936. Un ex-ufficiale russo gioca una pericolosa partita con nazisti, bolscevichi e vecchi compagni dell'esercito.

L'anglaise et le duc

L'anglaise et le duc

Éric Rohmer 2001 2h 9m 8.0

During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Conte d'automne

Conte d'automne

Éric Rohmer 1998 1h 52m 7.5

Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

Conte d'été

Conte d'été

Éric Rohmer 1996 1h 54m 7.6

A good looking young man on holiday finds 3 beautiful women. Who will he choose?

Les rendez-vous de Paris

Les rendez-vous de Paris

Éric Rohmer 1995 1h 38m 6.5

Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.

L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque

L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque

Éric Rohmer 1993 1h 50m 8.0

The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.

Conte d'hiver

Conte d'hiver

Éric Rohmer 1992 1h 54m 6.5

Felicie and Charles have a serious if whirlwind holiday romance.

Conte de printemps

Conte de printemps

Éric Rohmer 1990 1h 47m 7.3

Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions.

L'ami de mon amie

L'ami de mon amie

Éric Rohmer 1987 1h 43m 6.0

Suivant le proverbe "les amis de mes amis sont mes amis", ce dernier exemple de "Comédies et Proverbes" d'Eric Rohmer conte les aventures sentimentales croisées d'un groupe de jeunes gens dans le cadre de la ville nouvelle de Cergy-Pontoise.

4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle

4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle

Éric Rohmer 1987 1h 35m 5.5

Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

Le rayon vert

Le rayon vert

Éric Rohmer 1986 1h 39m 7.1

It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her...

Les nuits de la pleine lune

Les nuits de la pleine lune

Éric Rohmer 1984 1h 42m 7.3

"He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience independence.

Pauline à la plage

Pauline à la plage

Éric Rohmer 1983 1h 34m 7.3

Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece, Pauline, on a vacation to Granville. There, she meets an old love...

Le beau mariage

Le beau mariage

Éric Rohmer 1982 1h 37m 8.0

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not seem very interested.

La femme de l'aviateur

La femme de l'aviateur

Éric Rohmer 1981 1h 46m 7.8

A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…

Perceval le Gallois

Perceval le Gallois

Éric Rohmer 1978 2h 20m 5.0

Le jeune Perceval rêve de devenir chevalier. Il quitte le château de sa mère, et se rend à la cour du roi Arthur. Il apprend le maniement des armes, venge la reine d'une offense et décide de retourner chez lui. Sur son chemin surgit un bien étrange château ou il est invité à demeurer.

Die Marquise von O...

Die Marquise von O...

Éric Rohmer 1976 1h 42m 7.3

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

L'amour l'après-midi

L'amour l'après-midi

Éric Rohmer 1972 1h 37m 7.1

Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office.

Le genou de Claire

Le genou de Claire

Éric Rohmer 1970 1h 45m 7.6

On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

Ma nuit chez Maud

Ma nuit chez Maud

Éric Rohmer 1969 1h 50m 8.1

A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

La collectionneuse

La collectionneuse

Éric Rohmer 1967 1h 26m 8.3

A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

Paris vu par...

Paris vu par...

Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol 1965 1h 35m

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and...

La carrière de Suzanne

La carrière de Suzanne

Éric Rohmer 1963 54m 7.2

In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.

La boulangère de Monceau

La boulangère de Monceau

Éric Rohmer 1963 23m 8.0

Early new wave effort from Rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.

Le signe du lion

Le signe du lion

Éric Rohmer 1962 1h 43m 7.7

n American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Véronique et son cancre

Véronique et son cancre

Éric Rohmer 1959 18m

Véronique gives a mathematics lesson to a dunce who answers the prepared questions with disconcertingly sound answers.

Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak

Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak

Éric Rohmer 1951 12m 6.0

On a snowy day in a Swiss village, Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to spark jealousy. Later, at Charlotte’s home, tensions rise as they discuss beauty, attraction, and honesty. Despite initial resistance, emotions take over, leading to an unexpected moment of intimacy before their farewell.

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