Éric Rohmer
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Éric Rohmer was a French film director who lived from 1920 to 2010 and became known for his distinctive approach to cinema. His work remains influential in film history, though the specific details of his contributions and style would require additional sources to fully explain.
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- Born
- 1920-03-21
- Died
- 2010-01-11
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Directing · Tulle, Corrèze, France
Éric Rohmer (March 21, 1920 – January 11, 2010) was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma. Description above from the Wikipedia article Éric Rohmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Postface à l’Atalante — Self2025
- Éric Rohmer, Childhood Spirit — Himself2025
- Godard Cinema — Self (archive footage)2023
- Godard Cinema2023
- Die Geheimnisse von Paris — Himself2012
- My Last Interview with Eric Rohmer — Self2010
- In the Company of Éric Rohmer — Self2010
- La Traversée du désir — Self2009
- Moral Tales, Filmic Issues: A Conversation between Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer — Himself2006
Article
Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer ( French: [eʁik ʁomɛʁ]; 21 March 1920 – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established. He edited the influential film journal Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues—among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut—were making the transition from critics to filmmakers and gaining international attention.
Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. In 2001, Rohmer received the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion. After his death in 2010, his obituary in The Daily Telegraph called him "the most durable filmmaker of the French New Wave", outlasting his peers and "still making movies the public wanted to see" late in his career.