Eric Rohmer - A Biography

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

About the author

Antoine de Baecque is a professor of the history of cinema at the University of Nanterre. He has published biographies of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema. Noël Herpe is a senior lecturer at the Université de Paris VIII. He has published works on René Clair and Sacha Guitry, as well as a book of interviews with Éric Rohmer about his text Le Celluloïd et le Marbre.

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"Rohmer was sensitive, very well educated, and at home with literature, music, painting and theater; the biography shows a happy life lived in such culture. It shows how this flows easily into his films, how they operate as experiments in feeling and perception. The book makes one hungry to see them all over again." - Dudley Andrew, Yale University

Product details

• Authors: Antoine de Baecque, Antoine De Herpe Baecque, Baecque Antoine de, Antoine de Baecque, No?l Herpe, Noel Herpe, Noël Herpe
• Assisted by: Lisa Neal (Translation), Steven Rendall (Translation), Rendall Steven (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2016
• EAN: 9780231175586
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17558-6
• No. of pages: 608
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Film; entertainment; biography