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...course of true love never did run smooth," wrote the old Bard, and Eric Rohmer's adaptation of Heinrich von Kliest's 1808 novella in The Marquise of O shows just how contorted that path can get. A young marquise, fleeing from an invading army, is set upon by four enemy troops determined to appropriate the spoils of war. Suddenly a figure in white leaps down from an overhanging bluff, saving the young marquise's honor and perhaps her life. The savior takes the distraught marquise to safety and receives her father's effusive thanks. Sound familiar? Ah, but there...
...MARQUISE OF O . . . Director Eric Rohmer's coolly ironic historical romance about a woman who first mistakes a man for an angel, then for a devil, but finally learns he is just . . . a man. A delicate morality play that is also a send-up of melodramatic conventions, it is very likely the best of the best-and surely the wittiest...
Maude, in Rohmer's movie My Night at Maud's appeals to me because she lives out a seemingly unattainable fantasy. She's a physician, pretty jaded, about 35, who picks up men whenever she feels like it. I guess Rohmer made her jaded to excuse her jaded to excuse her waywardness. The discouraging (and conventional) catch to her (unconventional) way of life is that she's unhappy...
...aren't in the bunker this week. Like If I Had A Million and that recent film on the Munich Olympics, this is a conglomerate movie, with different directors each interpreting the same subject--here, Paris. The directors are mostly New Wave in this case: Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, others, and--though the information I have here doesn't say so--I could have sworn that Louis Malle did a bit for this one, the best...
Americans who fondly remember the days when both Canada and the U.S. boasted about sharing "the longest undefended border in the world" may be inclined to dismiss such extremist literary nonsense out of hand. Yet the best-selling Rohmer novels are bizarrely representative of one aspect of the current Canadian mood: a rising nationalism and its inevitable corollary, a growing anti-Americanism. The Toronto Star published a story last September alleging that the U.S. had actually massed tanks and heavy artillery at the border in preparation for an invasion during the terrorist kidnapings and crisis in Quebec in October...