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My Night at Maud's

By Eric Rohmer

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My Night at Maud's

By Eric Rohmer

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he multifaceted, deeply personal dramatic universe of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinéma, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the sixties, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries, like François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. This near genre unto itself was established with his audacious and wildly influential series “Six Moral Tales.” A succession of jousts between fragile men and the women who tempt them, the “Six Moral Tales” unleashed onto the film world a new voice, one that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating Contains: The Bakery Girl of Monceau Suzanne's Career My Night at Mauds La Collectionneuse Claire's Knee Love in the Afternoon New, restored high-definition digital transfers, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer Exclusive new video conversation between Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder Bonus short films by Eric Rohmer: Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951); Nadja in Paris (1964); A Modern Coed (1966); The Curve (1999); and Véronique and Her Dunce (1958) "On Pascal" (1965), an episode of the educational TV series En profil dans le texte directed by Rohmer, on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, the subject of debate in My Night at Maud's Archival 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 Original theatrical trailers New and improved English subtitle translations "Six Moral Tales" book featuring the original stories by Eric Rohmer Booklet featuring Rohmer's landmark essay “For a Talking Cinema,” and more
Product details
Release Date:
2006-08-15
Number of Discs:
6
Aspect Ratios:
1.33:1
Languages:
Published: English, Original: French
Weight:
454 g
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