Word: rohmer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could take them to disturbing new places. Arguing that "it's only a movie," he could fulfill his ambition to create "pure cinema": the manipulation of universal emotions by camera placement, shot duration, the dramatic use of color, sound and editing. As two future film makers, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, wrote of the director in 1957, "In Hitchcock's work, form does not embellish content, it creates it." Hitchcock, less interested in universal theories than in the international box office, put his artistic aims more matter of factly: "The Japanese audience should scream at the same time...
...PROLOGUE for Eric Rohmer's situation comedy Pauline at the Beach is a proverb from Chretian de Troyes--"A Wagging Tongue Bites Itself Off." That simple phrase captures perfectly the essence of this French film, in which the adults often act like children and the children seem like mature adults. It is set at a small resort town in Brittany, where the young and old characters claim they understand what love is--they discuss it incessantly and they try to capture it. But in the end they discover they have only flirted with passion...
...Rohmer always chooses dark-eyed, dark-haired actresses to play his heroines, and Amanda Langlet as Pauline is no exception; her short, dark hair; belies a fresh, untouched femininity waiting to bud. Her adolescence is just beginning to bloom and rather than being shocked or even interested by Marion's sexual exploits and feelings about love, she stands back dispassionately and absorbs it all as if it was merely a scene on a stage. Langlet seduces the audience with her gentleness and silent wisdom about her own life and about the lives unfolding around...
...broken hearts, the lies, the misunderstandings, the misinterpreted love, fit into Rohmer's theme about hard-to-grasp amour. The adults, especially Marion, delude themselves until fantasies become reality. They never learn to accept the truth--the beach at off season for them is a time to be carefree, to forget the world around them. When they get too tired or too bored, they simply leave in search of yet another chance to live in a world made of dreams...
...with Pauline as the most practical member of the beach party, Rohmer shows that adults are always trying to capture the simplicity of youth. In Rohmer's world, the adults refuse to accept reality, and gradually the children get swept into an adult world where people manipulate others in order to have a good time. These adults constantly wag their tongues in search of happiness and usually get so carried away they bite their tongues...