Claire's Knee
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Aurora Cornu, B?atrice Romand, Jean-Claude Brialy, Laurence de Monaghan, Mich?le MontelDirector: Eric Rohmer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Fox Lorber
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Movie Review: L'ete
Summary: 4 Stars
Eric Rohmer explores his favorite two subjects again, i.e human compulsions and ethics. This time his film's backdrop are those lazy hazy days of summer vacation for the upper middle class in the mountains of France.
Several families with chateaus on a lake front visit back and forth during those sun dappled days. Among our group are several teen age daughters and their boyfriends, a few mothers/authors, and a thirty something single guy friend about to finally resign himself to marriage. Beneath the pleasantries exchanged over lunches on the lawn under shade trees, there bubbles vague yearnings and misplaced affections, primarily in the mind of the man. The mother seems almost bemused by his confessions to her.
Rohmer seems to be poking around the idea of how far one can carry his fantasies without crossing over any lines. However he leaves the viewer with an over-all feeling of how fleeting and essentially innocent this all is. Beneath the surface there is really nothing. No shadows emerge. In the end we are left with a simple portrait of a slice of life, as whispy as a summer cloud scudding over a lake's surface.
Summary of Claire's Knee
A brilliant and insightful comedy about a mans secret and peculiar obsession with a younger woman. A grown man about to be married goes on a holiday and develops a fixation on a young girls knee. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Starring: Jean-claude Brialy Aurora Comu Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Eric RohmerAbrasive, self-deluded humor tinges the prickly exploration of sexual politics in French director Eric Rohmer's world and it often makes for less-than-comfortable viewing. Though Rohmer has made movies for several decades, his best-known films comprise a cycle loosely dubbed "The Six Moral Tales" (one short, one featurette, and four features), which also includes La Collectionneuse, My Night at Maud's, and Chloe in the Afternoon. Rohmer's comedies are full of the disillusion and jaded settling that come with age and adulthood, and he sharply contrasts cynicism against the naivet? and easy, innocent wisdom of youth. In Claire's Knee, Jean-Claude Brialy plays a diplomat named Jerome Montcharvin, who agrees to housesit a friend's rural but lavish country estate for a month. Jerome appears contented with life as he's recently become engaged to Lucinde, a woman he's known for six years. He takes refuge in the fact that she is his opposite, and placates his doubts by reminding himself that "a woman made for me would bore me." Into this summer idyll and Jerome's predictable, ordered life come two teenage girls who threaten his faithful but passionless ardor for his fianc?e. To temper his awakening libido, Jerome pretends to "experiment" with the young women's affections and, in doing so, exposes himself as a cruel, callous man who is clueless as to his true nature. Though a close woman friend cautions him that "in love, there is will," he dismisses the possibility yet in the end performs an act of "pure will" with one of the teens, the lovely Claire, and brashly hurts that which he most desires. Claire's Knee was shot by the brilliant cinematographer, the late Nestor Almendros, and the color palette in the film is a masterpiece of style and scheme. It's a Monet on celluloid, and its visual prowess, combined with the provocative, unsettling theme, earned the National Society of Film Critics' Best Film prize in 1971. (Unfortunately, the first "reel" of the DVD transfer contains several noticeable scratches and the color is also faded and purple.) --Paula Nechak
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