Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales
aka: The Bakery Girl of Monceau, Suzanne’s Career, My Night at Maud’s, La collectionneuse, Claire’s Knee, Love in the Afternoon
France 1962-1972, 400 minutes
Dir. Eric Rohmer
In French with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Sex
Aroview: A succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them, Six Moral Tales unleashed on the film world a new voice, one that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating.
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DVD Features
- Conversation between director Eric Rohmer and filmmaker Barbet Schroeder.
- Four short films by Rohmer
- “On Pascal,” a 1965 episode of the educational TV series En profil dans le texte directed by Rohmer, on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal.
- Interviews with Rohmer; actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, and Jean--Louis Trintignant; film critic Jean Douchet; and producer Pierre Cottrell
Video afterword by filmmaker and writer Neil LaBute
- aspect ratio: 4:3 (original academy)
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