La Collectionneuse
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Alain Jouffroy, Daniel Pommereulle, Hayd?e Politoff, Mijanou Bardot, Patrick BauchauDirector: Eric Rohmer
Writer: Patrick Bauchau
Writer: Hayd?e Politoff
Writer: Daniel Pommereulle
Writer: Eric Rohmer
Producer: Alfred de Graff
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Georges de Beauregard
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of La Collectionneuse
Movie Review: The weak link in the Six Moral Tales
Summary: 3 Stars
Although much aclaimed on its first release, seen today La Collectionneuse seems easily the weakest link in Eric Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales. While it does take the series into darker territory, its insufferably smug male leads and the hideous droning delivery of the female lead (who ties with Marie-France Pisier for the most annoying voice in French cinema) make it a real chore to watch at times. The fact that it's the film that Neil LaBute has spent a career remaking hardly warmed me to it either. Yes, it's about superficial people, but it skims perilously close to becoming as superficial as they are by overindulging their sense of self-importance. For cameo spotters, Performance director Donald Cammell can be briefly glimpsed in the film's St. Tropez scenes.
Summary of La Collectionneuse
The third of Eric Rohmer's films in his celebrated "Six Moral Tales" cycle, La Collectionneuse was also the first of his works to achieve widespread recognition. Typical of the series' satiric, witty stories about the conflict between instinct and intellect, the story finds a luscious and promiscuous young woman (Haydee Politoff) sleeping with a different man every night on St.?Tropez. When her moral health becomes the proprietary concern of two male friends who decline to have sex with her--for her own good, of course--the battle of mind over pure desire becomes harder on the men as passions are invariably aroused. As with Rohmer's Claire's Knee and Chloe in the Afternoon, La Collectionneuse is ultimately more than a literate farce about the folly of too much moral and intellectual certainty. The film subtly, quietly grows into a sublime state of self-reflection, leading us above and beyond the characters' self-involvement into a revealed, wordless transcendence. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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