La Collectionneuse
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Movie Reviews of La Collectionneuse
Movie Review: This is a superb must-see film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a superb French film with English subtitles that borders on being artistic, certainly causing viewers to think, besides enjoying what they see. There are at least three themes: the value of a bohemian life, free gratification of sex, and relationships.
We are introduced to Haydee at the outset of the film. The camera watches Haydee for more than a few minutes as she walks a beach in the slimmest of bikinis. She seems engrossed in thought, somewhat sad, feeling alone. The camera dwells on each part of her beautiful body, feel, legs, stomach, breasts, arms, neck, and face. She is very attractive and graceful.
We then meet a handsome man, Adrien. We see his flat stomach frequently and his chest and face. He tells his friends that he wants to leave England, go to a friend's chateau in France, and do nothing in seclusion, for his friend is not there.
Haydee visits and is allowed to stay. She is with a boy and has noisy sex with him nightly. Adrien chases the boy away because of the noise. Haydee seems indifferent, and has male friends pick her up every night, a different one each night, and does not return until morning. Adrien sees her as a collector of men; hence the title of the film. He acts as if he is indifferent, but comes to think that Haydee is trying to seduce him.
At the end of the film Haydee agrees to sleep with him. Will he do so? If not, why not? What does Adrien need? Haydee says that she never gets what she wants. What does Haydee really want or need? Will she ever get it?
Movie Review: aaaah, la collectionneuse
Summary: 5 Stars
ok. first up, this is heavy duty french art film action. approximatley equivalent in endurance requirement to eg. slacker. and equally rewarding for those who make the effort.the film focuses on a lazy summer. a young art dealer is staying at a friends south-of-france villa, where he proposes "to do absolutely nothing"
he and the friend pontificate about the lovelife of the artless haide as she sleeps her way around the riviera. their intellectualisation serves to put themselves morally above her - in their minds at least. but haide shows them that they are aiming for something they can never have - while she is often unsatisfied she is more often happy, or at least mildly amused.
this is an awesome mood piece - i thouroughly recommend quiet contemplation with your relaxant of choice. top notch
Movie Review: ADVENTURES OF HUMAN MIND
Summary: 5 Stars
La Collectionneuse is the third part in Rohmer's "The Moral Tales" The connecting thing in these tales is that the protagonist at the moment he is reaching a woman, meets another woman, but after all forsakes her for the sake of the first one, although is not sure of getting her. A moralist is someone who is interested in what is happening inside a person, moods and feelings. People are intelligent thinkers wrapped around and inside their own egos. Men say that Haydee is a collector, which she's not, neither something which can be collected. She is simply searching as natural relationship to other people as possible. Rohmer penetrates to such areas in human mind which have earlier been considered impossible to reach by cinema.Movie Review: Rohmer The Best Film ever Made
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie surpasses most of those movies mentioned as best movie of all times. Here are the reasons:
a) There is no stupid musik.
b) it has a perfect attention to detail.
c) It is honest.
d) The female character is introduced in a most marvelous way, her "tete ronde" looking absent at the hero as he mistankingly wanders to her bedroom.
e) There is no better scene of a spoilt artist banging his slipper against the floor.
d) "You are ashamed of not having money." -No with money my dandyism would not be heroic. -I too, had I been 6.5ft with a profile of an eagle, would fell myself proche de Dieu...
Movie Review: Beautiful, subtle, profound and funny movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Of course, if you never liked any of Rohmer's film, this one is not for you. But "La Collectionneuse" is an extremely beautiful, subtle and profound movie. Also a funny one, even if you don't laugh... Rohmer could have made only this single film, and yet would be an important and intriguing director.