Six Moral Tales - One Moral POLL - Eric Rohmer

Claire's Knee gets most of the attention, but I prefer Love in the Afternoon.

Only seen #3, and it's absolutely brilliant.

Claire's Knee probably gets the most attention because it has the best title and the video box had a girl's knee and leg on it.

davek, watch the disc with the first 2 and Love in the Afternoon.

Have actually borrowed Claire's Knee from my uni library, which I can't wait to watch...the shorts must be on YouTube right?

Dunno! I saw them on VHS aamof.

does claire's knee really get the most attn??? i thought love in the afternoon and my night at maud's were more 'popular', had bigger reps, etc.

voted claire's knee, it...resonates. these are all wonderful.

i've been watching or rewatching a bunch of these lately. suzanne's career is pretty good! recently *rescreened* claire's knee and maud's, think the latter is much better. have yet to see la collectionneuse, and it's been a long time since i saw love in the afternoon but i remember liking it. of the 5 i've seen i will go with #3

#1 is on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFEuYlbTA4

La Collectionneuse is my favorite. I love how everyone is lazy and never works.

"La Collectionneuse" my fave as well.

Maud's is better than Claire's Knee which i thought was a bore and not very deep -- it presents an interesting problem but doesn't do anything with it. but maybe i missed something.

Haven't seen the first two, not sure if I've seen #4 (I saw one of his early and lesser-known films a few years ago, but I can't remember if that was the one). Anyway, pretty close between Maud and Claire, with a nice symmetry between the really interesting females (Maud, Laura) and their porcelain-doll opposites (Françoise, Claire).

Watched La Collectioneuse with 3 or 4 friends and it was uncomfortable because the characters discuss philosophy and I think they're supposed to look ridiculous and priggish while they do so, but it made me think my friends were thinking "this movie is incredibly pretentious."

Also, Rhomer: a prude? puritanical? Excluding Astrea and Celadon.

'bakery girl' 100%

Maybe Rohmer is a prude? His characters are mostly frustrated, and the sex seems to happen to everyone but the main characters. But it's always because of the main characters trepidation and mis-steps. I'm not sure what the lesson to be learn from the six moral tales, but I feel like he had one in mind.

lesson to be learned?

A bunch of French folks philosophizing is a very "In every French movie ever..." Type of thing (or was)- it can often be part of the fun if dialoque is well written - and I hope Bamcquern's friends didn't think it was pretentious. That would be sad.

yeah, it was clear the characters were supposed to be insufferable, especially given the ending. Love in the afternoon was my fav out of the 2 moral tales I actually saw (the other being la collectioneuse, obv.). The characters were more real and I think it was funnier. This could be a bias because la collectioneuse was the first rhomer movie I ever saw and I think I saw 2 or 3 between LC and LITA and maybe became better acquainted with rhomer in the process, making it more enjoyable to me.

Maybe the moral is the disconnect between what we think sex and love are supposed to be what they really are- the consequences of these expectations.

I don't think the films were about learning lessons or getting across a moral. They were more about moral choices or, in the case of Claire's Knee, hiding behind one.

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they sure are scrupulous about not drunk driving in these.

sometimes, i think that the real moral in Rohmer's six moral tales is to remind everyone that both the word and the concept "douche" are originally French.

i would've voted for my night at maud's, had i know about this poll/seen all of these films when this poll was active.

Watching a pretty bad latter day Columbo right now which has Patrick Bachau, from "La Collectionneuse", as the murderer.

they sure are scrupulous about not drunk driving in these.

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