When Rohmer takes us to the movies

Éric Rohmer still has many surprises in store. For the centenary of his birth, in March 1920, and the tenth anniversary of his death, in January 2010, the author of Ma nuit chez Maud , returns to the front of the stage, but a little disguised, masked by the films of other.

Thanks to Noël Herpe, a fine connoisseur of the work and of man (We owe him in particular Éric Rohmer , with Antoine de Baecque at Stock, and the complete DVD edition at Potemkine / Agnès b.), Is published by Capricci Le Salt of the present , anthology of critics by Maurice Schérez (the real name of Rohmer) from the years 1948 to 1959, notably in Les Cahiers du cinema and in Arts . In some 200 films of all genres and from all horizons, we wander through the cinema with a cicerone as literate as free of mind. We will often find it where we do not expect it.

Constantly, Éric Rohmer forks, takes side roads. He is very unpredictable

“Constantly, it branches off, takes side roads. It is very unpredictable, ” notes Noël Herpe, who came to present his work at the Librairie du Panthéon.

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