Accuse Borowczyk of perpetrating a pervy male gaze, but never accuse him of repressing anything.
Even Blaise Pascal would wager you have everything to lose by not picking up Criterion’s upgrade of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales.”
Eric Rohmer’s revolutions were quiet ones, couched in a perpetual remove and observation.
This wry variation on Rohmer’s style of romantic comedy is a must-own, even if the Blu-ray is slightly marred by an unrestored negative.
Out 1 is largely a film of conversation, as its prolonged rehearsal vignettes regularly give way to even lengthier scenes of verbal self-analysis.
Despite its googly-eyed missive to the power of romance fueling confidence and comfort, A Summer’s Tale is most salient when addressing the bonds of friendship
With his latest, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s characteristic obsession with his country’s variegated topography takes him to Cappadocia.
Prince Avalanche, a Judd Apatow-like bromance elevated to the realm of near-myth, is an extremely odd, deliberately jarring work.
Éric Rohmer uses a country-mouse-and-city-mouse template to explore morality, aesthetic sense, urban and rural savvy, and more.
Those who find Rohmer heroines difficult might even be won over by the depth and poignancy of Marie Rivière’s Delphine.
It’s official, say critics: Hong Sang-soo’s repeating himself.
References to films-as-dreams in film criticism have risen in inverse proportion to the actual dreamlike quality of the cinema, which is all but extinct.<
Summer is officially over and all the kids are going back to school.
The theme of male apprehension either transcended or succumbed to, but always deconstructed, is at the jazzily dendritic core of the “Moral Tales.”
The Aviator’s Wife is valuable for being perhaps the most stifled movie that Rohmer ever made.
Who said writing Romanian screenplays was easy?
What is surprising, at least for me, is my immediate thought upon hearing of Rohmer’s death.
I’m not sure how Mulholland Drive would look to me now that this decade is ending.
Rohmer has said that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is probably his swan song, and he’s not pulling any punches here.
In the interlude between disaster and reconciliation, Éric Rohmer treats the audience to various symposiums on the nature of romantic fidelity.