The best Éric Rohmer’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Éric Rohmer’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Éric Rohmer.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.3/10
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
Out 1
7.5/10
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
The Marquise of O
7/10
A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
La traversée du désir
5.7/10
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
Out 1: Spectre
7.2/10
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
Bérénice
5.8/10
Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film.
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
7.6/10
Documentary overview of the life of French filmmaker François Truffaut.
Six in Paris
6.7/10
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Louis Lumière
7.6/10
Eric Rohmer leads a conversation with Jean Renoir and Henri Langlois on the art of filmmaker Louis Lumière.
The Kreutzer Sonata
6.1/10
La Sonata à Kreutzer is a 16mm film based on a Tolstoy story and was written and directed by Eric Rohmer and produced by Jean-Luc Godard. The film follows a man (Rohmer) whose wife starts to fall for a another man (Jean-Claude Brialy). The film is a great look into the Nouvelle Vague in 1956, with Godard in a supporting role and a scene shot in the offices of Cahiers du cinema, with cameos by Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, and Andre Bazin. It was in reference to this film when Truffaut called Rohmer the master of 16mm.
Les contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
Nouvelle vague: El cine sin dogmas
The Adventures of Rosette
A series of stories told by Rosette about her vacation. Filmed in super 8 by Eric Rohmer.
Chassé-croisé
4.4/10
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
Passage de la Vierge
A film by Haydée Caillot with Eric Rohmer, Anne Rouanet, Jean-Pierre Caminade, et al.
Postface à l'Atalante
An interview with François Truffaut on the cinema of Jean Vigo.
Et dixit le mage
A film by Haydée Caillot with Rosette, Eric Rohmer, Françoise Bécam et al.
Parlons cinema avec Eric Rohmer
An interview with French film director Eric Rohmer.
Moral Tales, Filmic Issues
7.6/10
A conversation between Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.
Postface à Boudu sauvé des eaux
An episode of the educational French television series "Aller au cinéma" in which filmmaker Eric Rohmer and critic Jean Douchet discuss the social implications of Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved From Drowning."
