Éric Rohmer
Subtitle: a biography
By: Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe ; translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal
Contributors: Herpe, Noël, author; Rendall, Steven, translator; Neal, Lisa (Lisa Dow), translator
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9780231175586
Subjects: Biography; Motion picture producers and directors
Work titles: Éric Rohmer
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 cinéma from 1957 to 1963, Éric 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: François 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." --
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mysteries of "le grand momo"; title: Maurice Schérer's youth: 1920-1945; title: From Schérer to Rohmer: 1945-1957; title: Under the sign of Leo: 1959-1962; title: Under the sign of cahiers: 1957-1963; title: The laboratory period: 1963-1970; title: Four moral tales: 1966-1972; title: Of Germany and the pleasure of teaching: 1969-1994; title: In pursuit of Perceval: 1978-1979; title: Six comedies and proverbs: 1980-1986; title: The Rohmer of the cities and the Rohmer of the countryside: 1973-1995; title: In the rhythm of the seasons: 1989-1998; title: Filming history: 1998-2004; title: A winter's tale: 2006-2007; title: In pain: 2001-2010.