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The long-awaited collection of all six 'Moral Tales' from the late, great French director. Contains Suzanne's Career, The Girl at the Monceau Bakery, My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, La Collectionneuse and Love in the Afternoon.
In his later years, Eric Rohmer was renowned for intuitive insights into the conflicted emotions of garrulous young women caught between naiveté and caprice. However, the confused protagonists in his Moral Tales are all males and most of them should know better, as they allow a fleeting fixation to tempt them towards potentially ruinous indiscretion.
The students in The Baker of Monceau and Suzanne's Career (1963) can be forgiven their juvenile folly. But art dealer Patrick Bauchau in La Collectionneuse (1967), Catholic engineer Jean-Louis Trintignant in My Night at Maud's (1969), affianced diplomat Jean-Claude Brialy in Claire's Knee (1970) and married lawyer Bernard Varley in Love in the Afternoon (1972) become victims of their own psychological, sexual and ethical fragility, as they contemplate the consequences of acting upon impulse and repenting at leisure.
Impeccably photographed by Nestor Almendros, this teasing, erudite and sagacious sextet humanises existential angst and proves Rohmer to have been a deceptively daring, modern and compassionate film-maker.
Rohmer's short films 'Nadja à Paris' and and 'Charlotte et son Steak'.
Film Description
A collection bringing together all six of the late, great French filmmaker's films in his 'Moral Tales' series. Contains: Suzanne's Career, The Girl at the Monceau Bakery, My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, La Collectionneuse and Love in the Afternoon.
A former editor of the groundbreaking magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Eric Rohmer (1910-2010) became one of the leading figures of the French New Wave. Working well into his eighties, his hugely influential body of work is celebrated for its originality, economical visual style and witty, articulate dialogue. Rohmer’s reputation was established with his ambitious ‘Moral Tales’ series of films, each based around the theme of a man’s sexual temptation.
In Suzanne's Career (1963), a young student finds himself consumed by jealousy and resentment over his friend's treatment of a beautiful young woman, while The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1963) sees a young man's affections divided by two beautiful women. La Collectioneuse (1967) is Rohmer's witty and erotic look at the theme of resisting sexual temptation, while My Night at Maud's (1969) is an Oscar nominated comedy in which an engineer who thinks he has found his perfect match accidently spends the night with a rich divorcee. Claire's Knee (1970) is an insightful comedy charting a man''s secret obsession with a teenage girl, while Love in the Afternoon (1972), the last film in Rohmer's acclaimed 'Moral Tales' series, deals with a married man's dilemma after he falls for the charms of his friend's mistress.
