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...lovers, Aciman references a bygone European past, but manages to trivialize it by reducing it to a simple, romantic picture of the Old Country. Both Clara and the protagonist come from an Eastern European, Jewish background and move about in a world with scattered references to Dostoevsky, Rilke, Rohmer, St. Petersburg, Bellagio and Byzantium—one that is faded around the edges like a sepia photograph...
...Rohmer and Erich W. Segal’59: While critics and bloggers were busy debating the possible racist connotations of “Avatar” verses its technological implications, the death of some influential film figures went relatively unnoticed. One of the seminal directors of the French New Wave, Éric Rohmer, passed away on January 11, leaving behind a large body of films, many of which were organized in series around common problems of morality and relationships. If you share the conviction of Gene Hackman’s character in “Night Moves?...
...light and pleasant as a Rohmer work often was - attractive people falling in love, at least with the idea of love - it was a taste not everyone cared to acquire. Quentin Tarantino, the great enthu-woozy-ast of world cinema, offered this very qualified recommendation of Rohmer's films: "You have to see one of them, and if you kind of like that one, then you should see his other ones. But you need to see one to see if you like it." He makes Rohmer's movies sound less like caviar, more like artichokes. Gene Hackman, in his role...
Actually, it was like watching a master painter apply his brushstrokes to a series of fond character studies. On the palette for Rohmer's prime romantic comedies - he called them "moral tales" - were the cheery pastels of a mythical France where it rarely rains and the sun can make any improvised couple feel warmer. Rohmer was no maker of masterpieces; those require a larger canvas. His films were portraits. They were also essays. Rohmer analyzed what he adored. He could be thought of as a more intellectual John Hughes - not that Rohmer peppered his script with jokes, but both writer...
Creating fables both buoyant and grave, Rohmer had a movie personality hard to describe and harder to forget. Like subtle wines and lingering perfumes, his best films - Maud, Claire, Chloe, the 1994 Rendezvous in Paris - are essences all worth bottling...