Criterion Collection: Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, Eric Rohmer, DVD

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New, restored high-definition digital transfers, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer; Exclusive new video convesation between Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder; Archival interviews with Rohmer; actors Jean-Claude Brialy, B�atrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, and Jean-Louis Trintignant; film critic Jean Douchet; and producer Pierre Cottrell; Rohmer short films: Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951); Nadja in Paris (1964); A Modern Coed (1966); The Curve (1999); and V�ronique 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; Video afterword with filmmaker and writer Neil LaBute; Original theatrical trailers; New and improved English subtitle translations; Plus: Six Moral Tales, the original stories by Eric Rohmer, and a booklet featuring Rohmer's landmark essay "For a Talking Cinema," excerpts from cinematographer Nestor Almendros's autobiography, and new essays by Geoff Andrew, Ginette Vincendeau, Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, Molly Haskell, and Armond White

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Disc #1 -- The Bakery Girl of Monceau
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:33]
2. Crossed Paths [4:09]
3. Searching for Sylvie [3:13]
4. A Little Bakery [4:07]
5. A Game [4:29]
6. Intrigue [4:18]
7. His Choice [2:12]
1. Les Films du Losange [2:43]
2. A Paradox of Cinema [2:52]
3. The Adventure Begins [4:12]
4. Offscreen Commentary [6:00]
5. Moral Actions, Moral Ideas [3:34]
6. "Filmed Theater" [4:33]
7. Black and White [4:03]
8. Original Sound [3:10]
9. Working With the Actors [6:37]
10. Editing as Mise-en-Sc�ne [5:10]
11. Nestor Almendros [3:31]
12. Absence of Music [6:12]
13. Kammerspiel [6:10]
14. The Rose and the Cherries [2:10]
15. 1.33:1 [4:41]
16. Change of Location [5:41]
17. Paintings and Colors [6:26]
18. Digital Cinema and DVD [5:48]
Disc #2 -- Suzanne's Career
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:32]
2. Suzanne Hoquetot, With an H [2:48]
3. S�ance [11:39]
4. A Night Out [7:09]
5. Sponging Off Suzanne [10:02]
6. Back From Vacation [3:53]
7. Chat With Sophie [3:22]
8. Hanging Out at Bertrand's [6:35]
9. Stolen Money [6:29]
10. A Little Revenge [2:23]
Disc #3 -- My Night at Maud's
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:19]
2. Fran�oise [7:48]
3. Superficial Chat [4:38]
4. An Old Friend [10:31]
5. Chez Maud [4:38]
6. After Dinner [12:24]
7. Vidal Leaves [5:13]
8. Personal Ad [19:50]
9. The Next Morning [2:34]
10. Principles [4:02]
11. A Kiss [3:27]
12. Twenty-Four Hours [5:37]
13. Ten Percent Chance [13:36]
14. "We Don't Know Each Other" [5:31]
15. "I Have a Lover" [3:58]
16. By the Sea [5:11]
Disc #4 -- La Collectionneuse
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:55]
2. Prologues [10:33]
3. Vacation [9:15]
4. A Girl in the Window [6:44]
5. "Virtue and the Simple Life" [6:14]
6. "La Collectionneuse" [9:11]
7. A Little Swim [6:41]
8. A Dangerous Girl [12:40]
9. Sam [7:16]
10. Boredom [2:21]
11. Guilty Conscience [6:03]
12. Yes or No? [3:38]
13. A Real Decision [4:47]
1. From a Book to 35mm [5:21]
2. The Language of Actors [6:46]
3. Making Misunderstood Films [3:36]
4. A New-Wave Collaboration [5:16]
5. Moral Tales and 16mm [5:25]
6. Unoriginal Screenplays [4:06]
7. Financing My Films [4:48]
8. The Advent of the Tape Recorder [4:33]
9. Evolution of Language [4:24]
10. Two Cinemas for Two Types of Viewers [6:19]
Disc #5 -- Claire's Knee
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:19]
2. Monday, June 29 [5:42]
3. Blindfolded Eyes [8:45]
4. Our Story [6:03]
5. By the Lakeside [11:59]
6. A Walk up the Mountain [8:50]
7. "I Hate People My Age" [4:19]
8. "Are You Claire?" [5:48]
9. Her Knee [10:29]
10. Magnet of Desire [8:39]
11. Volleyball Game [4:47]
12. The Campers [3:48]
13. Departures [4:38]
14. Stormy Afternoon [10:54]
15. Fulfilled [9:47]
Disc #6 -- Love in the Afternoon
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:29]
2. Prologue [3:50]
3. At the Office [3:55]
4. Shopping [4:31]
5. Wives [4:04]
6. Dream [5:53]
7. Chlo� [6:22]
8. Catching Up [3:33]
9. A Gift [4:49]
10. Suicidal [10:44]
11. Afternoon Break [14:43]
12. New Baby [7:57]
13. In a Dress [9:27]
14. New Apartment [6:45]
15. One Thirty [9:31]

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Eric Rohmer ends his cycle of "Six Moral Tales" with this delightful film starring Bernard Verley as Frederic, a happily married man who discovers that he can't stop looking at beautiful women. As he says in a voiceover, "I feel marriage closes me in, cloisters me, and I want to escape." His escape comes to him in the form of Chloe (Zouzou), a woman from his past. Chloe had left for America as a successful model but has now returned to Paris, bored with her life and saddled with a man she doesn't love. Although Frederic is reluctant to see her at first, they agree to meet in the afternoons -- just to talk. He feels a freedom with her that he doesn't experience with anyone else because they have, he thinks, no commitments to each other. So, they talk of their problems and their relationships and, before long, Frederic finds that he is becoming increasingly attracted to her. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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September 19, 2009: As always, Criterion gives us a beautiful presentation of a set of magnificent films. The box-set includes all six of Rohmer's moral tales, the book he had written, which he based the films on, beautiful transfers of all the films, a book with essays on all six films, and a number of extravagant extras all on the films, including five of Rohmer's short films. A must buy for anyone who loves cinema!

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All Movie Guide

Eric Rohmer ends his cycle of "Six Moral Tales" with this delightful film starring Bernard Verley as Frederic, a happily married man who discovers that he can't stop looking at beautiful women. As he says in a voiceover, "I feel marriage closes me in, cloisters me, and I want to escape." His escape comes to him in the form of Chloe (Zouzou), a woman from his past. Chloe had left for America as a successful model but has now returned to Paris, bored with her life and saddled with a man she doesn't love. Although Frederic is reluctant to see her at first, they agree to meet in the afternoons -- just to talk. He feels a freedom with her that he doesn't experience with anyone else because they have, he thinks, no commitments to each other. So, they talk of their problems and their relationships and, before long, Frederic finds that he is becoming increasingly attracted to her. Paul Brenner

All Movie Guide

The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," Claire's Knee is a deliciously Rohmeresque story of sexual obsession. French diplomat Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), on a resort vacation, meets Claire (Laurence De Monaghan), the teen-aged daughter of a friend. Though engaged to be married, Jerome falls hopelessly in love -- not with Claire, but with Claire's knee. Realizing that to be revealed as a fetishist would be ruinous for him, Jerome does not act upon his obsession. Eventually he gets to fulfill his yearnings by placing his hand upon Claire's knee, a gesture which she assumes is out of sympathy for a personal crisis she is going through. Originally released as Le Genou de Claire, this film was the recipient of the Prix Louis Delluc and the Prix Melies. Hal Erickson

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La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, La Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour). Patrick Bauchau plays a self-centered young man on summer holiday in the Mediterranean. He finds himself irresistibly attracted to Haydee (Haydee Politoff,) the aloof young woman who shares his St. Tropez villa. Haydee is a sexual libertine, a "collector of men" (hence the film's title), but she appears disinterested in Patrick. For his part, the hero assumes that the girl's promiscuity is deliberately calculated to prompt him to seduce her. Filmed in 1967, La Collectioneuse was released in the US in 1971, by which time the fourth of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, My Night at Maud's (69), had already debuted in America. Hal Erickson

All Movie Guide

The "my" in My Night At Maud's belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he's never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old friend (Antoine Vitez) the same night places him in a potentially compromising situation when he's forced to spend the night with Vitez's alluring acquaintance Maude (Fran�oise Fabian), a sophisticated woman who challenges Trintignant's belief through intellectual and fleshly means. ~ Keith Phipps, All Movie Guide

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La Boulangere De Monceau (The Girl at the Monceau Bakery is the first of six short films that make up the Six Moral Tales series by French New Wave director Eric Rohmer. This 25-minute segment was shot in Paris with 16 mm black-and-white film. Barbet Schroeder (who also produced) plays a young university student who is initially attracted to a girl he sees on the street. While searching for her over several days, he makes frequent stops to a bakery. When he finally finds the girl and arranges a date, it conflicts with the date he has made with the bakery salesgirl. Andrea LeVasseur

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Suzanne's Career is the second of six short films that make up the Six Moral Tales series by French New Wave director Eric Rohmer. This 54-minute segment was shot in Paris with 16 mm black-and-white film. Bertrand (Philippe Beuzen) and Guillaume (Christian Charri�re) are friends. They take advantage of Suzanne (Catherine S�e) and Sophie (Diane Wilkinson). Andrea LeVasseur

New York Times

The major works -- Maud, La Collectionneuse (1967), Claire�s Knee (1970) and Love in the Afternoon (1972) -- have never looked better than they do in these new transfers, which Mr. Rohmer supervised.... At $99.95, the set may not be a casual investment, but it is one that will pay off in years of pleasurable viewing. This is certainly one of the most significant DVD releases of the year. Dave Kehr

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UPC: 715515019125
Source: CRITERION
Region Code: 1
Presentation: Pan & Scan
Editions: Subtitled
Time: 8:00:00
Sales Rank: 4,957

This set contains DVDs which may be available separately:

La Boulangere de Monceau
Pr�sentation ou Charlotte et son steak
La Carriere de Suzanne
Nadja A Paris
My Night at Maud's
La Collectionneuse
Claire's Knee
Chloe in the Afternoon
Mariage Blanc

Features:

New, restored high-definition digital transfers, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer; Exclusive new video convesation between Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder; Archival interviews with Rohmer; actors Jean-Claude Brialy, B�atrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, and Jean-Louis Trintignant; film critic Jean Douchet; and producer Pierre Cottrell; Rohmer short films: Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951); Nadja in Paris (1964); A Modern Coed (1966); The Curve (1999); and V�ronique 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; Video afterword with filmmaker and writer Neil LaBute; Original theatrical trailers; New and improved English subtitle translations; Plus: Six Moral Tales, the original stories by Eric Rohmer, and a booklet featuring Rohmer's landmark essay "For a Talking Cinema," excerpts from cinematographer Nestor Almendros's autobiography, and new essays by Geoff Andrew, Ginette Vincendeau, Kent Jones, Phillip Lopate, Molly Haskell, and Armond White

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- The Bakery Girl of Monceau
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:33]
2. Crossed Paths [4:09]
3. Searching for Sylvie [3:13]
4. A Little Bakery [4:07]
5. A Game [4:29]
6. Intrigue [4:18]
7. His Choice [2:12]
1. Les Films du Losange [2:43]
2. A Paradox of Cinema [2:52]
3. The Adventure Begins [4:12]
4. Offscreen Commentary [6:00]
5. Moral Actions, Moral Ideas [3:34]
6. "Filmed Theater" [4:33]
7. Black and White [4:03]
8. Original Sound [3:10]
9. Working With the Actors [6:37]
10. Editing as Mise-en-Sc�ne [5:10]
11. Nestor Almendros [3:31]
12. Absence of Music [6:12]
13. Kammerspiel [6:10]
14. The Rose and the Cherries [2:10]
15. 1.33:1 [4:41]
16. Change of Location [5:41]
17. Paintings and Colors [6:26]
18. Digital Cinema and DVD [5:48]
Disc #2 -- Suzanne's Career
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:32]
2. Suzanne Hoquetot, With an H [2:48]
3. S�ance [11:39]
4. A Night Out [7:09]
5. Sponging Off Suzanne [10:02]
6. Back From Vacation [3:53]
7. Chat With Sophie [3:22]
8. Hanging Out at Bertrand's [6:35]
9. Stolen Money [6:29]
10. A Little Revenge [2:23]
Disc #3 -- My Night at Maud's
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:19]
2. Fran�oise [7:48]
3. Superficial Chat [4:38]
4. An Old Friend [10:31]
5. Chez Maud [4:38]
6. After Dinner [12:24]
7. Vidal Leaves [5:13]
8. Personal Ad [19:50]
9. The Next Morning [2:34]
10. Principles [4:02]
11. A Kiss [3:27]
12. Twenty-Four Hours [5:37]
13. Ten Percent Chance [13:36]
14. "We Don't Know Each Other" [5:31]
15. "I Have a Lover" [3:58]
16. By the Sea [5:11]
Disc #4 -- La Collectionneuse
1. Logos/Opening Credits [:55]
2. Prologues [10:33]
3. Vacation [9:15]
4. A Girl in the Window [6:44]
5. "Virtue and the Simple Life" [6:14]
6. "La Collectionneuse" [9:11]
7. A Little Swim [6:41]
8. A Dangerous Girl [12:40]
9. Sam [7:16]
10. Boredom [2:21]
11. Guilty Conscience [6:03]
12. Yes or No? [3:38]
13. A Real Decision [4:47]
1. From a Book to 35mm [5:21]
2. The Language of Actors [6:46]
3. Making Misunderstood Films [3:36]
4. A New-Wave Collaboration [5:16]
5. Moral Tales and 16mm [5:25]
6. Unoriginal Screenplays [4:06]
7. Financing My Films [4:48]
8. The Advent of the Tape Recorder [4:33]
9. Evolution of Language [4:24]
10. Two Cinemas for Two Types of Viewers [6:19]
Disc #5 -- Claire's Knee
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:19]
2. Monday, June 29 [5:42]
3. Blindfolded Eyes [8:45]
4. Our Story [6:03]
5. By the Lakeside [11:59]
6. A Walk up the Mountain [8:50]
7. "I Hate People My Age" [4:19]
8. "Are You Claire?" [5:48]
9. Her Knee [10:29]
10. Magnet of Desire [8:39]
11. Volleyball Game [4:47]
12. The Campers [3:48]
13. Departures [4:38]
14. Stormy Afternoon [10:54]
15. Fulfilled [9:47]
Disc #6 -- Love in the Afternoon
1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:29]
2. Prologue [3:50]
3. At the Office [3:55]
4. Shopping [4:31]
5. Wives [4:04]
6. Dream [5:53]
7. Chlo� [6:22]
8. Catching Up [3:33]
9. A Gift [4:49]
10. Suicidal [10:44]
11. Afternoon Break [14:43]
12. New Baby [7:57]
13. In a Dress [9:27]
14. New Apartment [6:45]
15. One Thirty [9:31]

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