Though biographies are meant to illuminate and reveal their subjects, it’s no insult to the superb new biography of the filmmaker Éric Rohmer by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe to say that the book ...

Two of the most important openings tomorrow are the work of veteran directors, only one of whom is alive to witness the event. The first is Clint Eastwood’s “Jersey Boys,” which I’ll revisit soon; the ...

Éric Rohmer is one of the few filmmakers whose name, no less than those of Hitchcock or Chaplin, has become an adjective. A Rohmerian film is one in which people talk, and talk at length, whether they ...

“I saw a Rohmer film once,” said Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn’s classic mid-’70s neo-noir Night Moves. “It was kind of like watching paint dry.” Born in Tulle, France, as Maurice Schérer, Rohmer first ...

This Saturday, March 21st, is a centenary of Éric Rohmer, one of the few filmmakers in the history of the art whose movies are a genre unto themselves. Today, whenever a director makes a movie in ...

Nick is a writer who works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has previously written for Indiewire, The Playlist, and Little White Lies. To those familiar with French New Wave cinema, the name ...

Eric Rohmer’s films aren’t just people talking at length on earnest subjects. The vast amount of talk in his films hints at furious desire, and it substitutes for the gratification of that desire, ...

Eric Rohmer’s The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon), from his own screenplay, is based on Honoré d’Urfé’s 17th-century novel, which itself is set in fifth-century Gaul; ...

Meeting for drinks. Going to the beach. Family dinners. Eric Rohmer was a visionary who dealt in the down-to-earth, argues Michael Newton, as the BFI prepares to celebrate the French director It’s ...

As a person, he was the most deferential of the New Wave directors, yet the most persistent. Eric Rohmer. He died yesterday, aged eighty-nine, and he had made 50 films in that time--as regular, as ...

The sexiest part of Love in the Afternoon, French director Eric Rohmer’s classic infidelity movie, is not the scene where Chloé and Frédéric almost consummate their flirtatious friendship. No, it’s ...

Subtle irony, minimal plot – and plenty of couples debating the meaning of love. This summer's cinema has all gone a bit Eric Rohmer. So why do today's directors love the French auteur? After a ...