num_pages: 608
description: The director of twenty-five films including My Night at Maud's (1969) which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cinma from 1957 to 1963 ric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched made and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends colleagues and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward. Despite his privacy he cared deeply about politics religion culture and fostering a public appreciation of the medium he loved.This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests and relations. The filmmaker kept in close communication with his contemporaries and competitors: Franois Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette. He held a paradoxical fascination with royalist politics the fate of the environment Catholicism classical music and the French nightclub scene and his films were regularly featured at New York and Los Angeles film festivals. Despite an austere approach to life Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art culture and intellectual debate captured vividly in this definitive volume.
language: English
title: Éric Rohmer: A Biography
publisher: Columbia University Press