Dir. Eric Rohmer. Starring Marie Rivière. In cinematic heaven, there’s a special mansion for movies which are willing to lay it all on the line for their endings. Not a twist, precisely. It’s not about surprising us. It’s about wagering that a final scene, or even a last shot, will be sufficient to linger with… Read More The Green Ray (1986)
Dir. Eric Rohmer. Starring Barbet Schroeder, Michele Girardon, Claudine Soubrier Almost eight months to the day after I watched My Night at Maud’s, I finally finished Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales. By a weird set of circumstances, The Bakery Girl of Monceau is the last one I’ve added to my tally, and I’m not sure… Read More The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
I’m joining in the spirit of the year-in-review post, even though the way I watch movies isn’t really conducive to the kind of list that one usually sees at the end of the year. (Incidentally, if you happen to be a recent music aficionado, friend of the blog Matt will have his year-end list of… Read More 2018 Year-End Review: Fifty Movies
Dir. Eric Rohmer. Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault Pascal even condemned mathematics at the end of his life, Jean-Louis (Trintignant) says. He thought it was just another way to get unnecessarily distracted, a great temptation that pulls the mind away from faith in God. Nobody in the room, Jean-Louis included, seems to think… Read More My Night at Maud’s (1969)
Seeing Things Secondhand 