Le POLL d'Eric: Rohmer films

Le Genou de Claire out of the half or so I've seen.

And you call yourself Noodle Vague?

Ha!

Rohmer isn't really my fave by any means.

Didn't realise he'd just died tho. RIP

The unusually cool weather has me pining for An Autumn's Tale over Pauline and Le rayon vert.

Tempted to go for Nuits de la pleine lune at present.

I particularly loved his 80s work - the Comedies and Proverbs series and 'Four Adventures...'. Voted for 'Aviator's Wife' in the end.

RIP (is there a separate thread for this?)

RIP Eric Rohmer

I've only seen six or so, but I'll go with the obvious: Ma nuit chez Maud.

xp thanks, baaderonixx

I rewatched bits of Maud last night and I was surprised how luch more aesthetically minded it seemed (but maybe that's the B&W). The cast in that one is unbeatable, but some of the dialogue is a bit heavy handed, compared to his more elusive approach later on.

rayon vert

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disappointing, ilx

Another poll in which next to nobody votes and I forgot vote for my choice and it is one of the many which receive zero votes. Should be an emoticon for that.

Said vote would have gone to:
1972 L'Amour l'après-midi (Love in the Afternoon/Chloe in the Afternoon)

correct winner!

Probably, but Le Beau Mariage was robbed nonetheless.

watched full moon in paris, loved it

Those eighties films need more attention.

Le Rayon vert -

So Good

hadnt known it was nearly all improvised? i did not completely love it tbh, def below abt 6-7 other rohmers

i think the core of the movie success is the slow development of Delphine character and it's beautiful irony: her "pathetic" believes are not so pathetic after all. as long as you have a strong believe, that's fine, and that's the only stable thing she had in her life/

and Marie Rivière is awesome of course.

i think it's Rohmer's 2nd best after Claire's Knee

hadnt known it was nearly all improvised?

wat? really?

intrigued by the person who saw this body of work listed & voted for the lady & the duke

xp yea i was reading abt it in this thing - http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/f/9781441198310.jpg

they planned the last scene but improvised the rest p much

my favs are btwn Collectionneuse / Love In The Afternoon / Full Moon In Paris / Tale of Springtime

dont know how id ever decide

wow at la rayon vert improv. how's the book, johnny?

have only ever thought of this guy recently in light of whatever various pasty american has been doffing a cap toward him, it reflects well on his work

ive only dipped in & out of it, lil dry

this dude is fer real

the 80s pop-synth score at the start of Le Beau Mariage is so incongruous it made me lol - and the rest of the film is p funny too (especially the scene where Sabine starts removing the candles from her birthday cake)

need to literally fluently learn french by november

http://media.potemkine.fr/film/dossierpressedvd/rohmer-dppreviewbd.pdf

I missed the days I could while away sunday afternoons watching Rohmer DVDs

Rayon Vert is great. I don't remember the last time I identified so strongly with a protagonist. The vegetarianism scene is excruciating.

I completely agree. I've never seen a better cinematic depiction of awkwardness. It's wonderful!

still torn as to whether I shoudl shell out 200 euros for the blu-ray boxset.

I completely agree. I've never seen a better cinematic depiction of awkwardness. It's wonderful!

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I've seen lots. It's a good movie but nothing like the greatness I'd been told about, and not his best.

I just saw L'Ami de mon amie as well, which is really fun. I love the awkward scene where Blanche, Lea, and Alexandre are meeting up to go to a party. Blanche has trouble forming a sentence when she's around Alexandre, and Lea has advised her just to be jokey and casual; but Lea speaks so easily and rapidly with Alexandre that she keeps blocking any opening Blanche might have. Rohmer is great at setting up this kind of complex energy between two or three people and also at letting you see a character through another's eyes.

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I've seen lots.

Like what? I'm always keen to watch films that foreground awkward people. I guess Solondz is pretty amazing at it too.

Green Ray is likely not my favourite Rohmer (maybe it's A Tale of Springtime?), but the extremes of anxiety are acutely rendered.

yeah but A Summer's Tale had beach shots of Melvin Poupaud

*Melvil

I don't know how much of this was improvised. Delphine telling everyone that she'll just have a tomato for dinner is perfect. You can feel the disdain rising around the table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRuVNTJ6ASM