Éric Rohmer — Director (30)

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A Tale of Autumn (1998)
Conte d'automne
★ 9.3 7 ratings
Éric Rohmer actor: Marie Rivière / Béatrice Romand …
other title: Racconto d'autunno / Herbstgeschichte …
Magali, forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine and Isabelle both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.

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The Aviator's Wife (1981)
La Femme de l'aviateur
Éric Rohmer actor: Philippe Marlaud / Marie Rivière …
other title: La moglie dell'aviatore / A Mulher do Aviador …
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…

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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Conte d'été
★ 7.8 6 ratings
other title: Un ragazzo, tre ragazze - Racconto d'estate / Sommer …
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle
★ 8.4 13 ratings
Éric Rohmer actor: Joëlle Miquel / Jessica Forde …
other title: Reinette e mirabelle / Vier Abenteuer von Reinette und Mirabelle …
Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters and relation to the world of these two friends.

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La coleccionista (1967)
La Collectionneuse
★ 7.1 7 ratings
Éric Rohmer actor: Patrick Bauchau / Haydée Politoff …
other title: La collezionista / Die Sammlerin …
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.

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A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Conte de printemps
★ 8.7 6 ratings
Éric Rohmer actor: Anne Teyssèdre / Hugues Quester …
other title: Racconto di primavera / Frühlingserzählung …
The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.

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Suzanne’s Career (1963)
La Carrière de Suzanne
Éric Rohmer actor: Catherine Sée / Philippe Beuzen …
other title: La carriera di Susanna / Die Karriere von Suzanne …
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.

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The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962)
La boulangère de Monceau
★ 7.8 8 ratings
Éric Rohmer actor: Barbet Schroeder / Claudine Soubrier …
other title: La boulangère de Monceau / The Baker of Monceau …
Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.

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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
L'Ami de mon amie
★ 9.0 7 ratings
other title: L'amico della mia amica / O Amigo da Minha Amiga …
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to know Fabien.

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My Night at Maud's (1969)
Ma nuit chez Maud
★ 7.6 5 ratings
other title: La mia notte con Maud / Ma nuit chez Maud …
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.