Suzanne's Career/Girl at the Monceau Bakery
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Fred Junk, Mich?le Girardon, Michel MardoreDirector: Eric Rohmer
Producer: Barbet Schroeder
Cinematographer: Bruno Barbey
Cinematographer: Daniel Lacambre
Cinematographer: Jean-Michel Meurice
Editor: Eric Rohmer
Writer: Eric Rohmer
Producer: G. Derocles
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of Suzanne's Career/Girl at the Monceau Bakery
Movie Review: Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'La Boulang?re de Monceau' and 'La Carri?re de Suzanne.'
Summary: 4 Stars
?ric Rohmer (1920) challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, Six Moral Tales ("Contes moraux"). Inspired by F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, each "tale" follows the same basic story: a man is tempted a woman, but he ultimately resists the temptation.
Exploring the fickle nature of youthful desire, the first of the Moral Tales, The Bakery Girl of Monceau (La Boulang?re de Monceau) (1963), is a simple, 23-minute black and white film about a law student (Barbet Schroeder) who--while stuffing himself with sugar cookies and pastries daily--hesitates between two women, a pretty brunette bakery girl and an "unknowable" young woman he has only observed from a distance. Schroeder's voice was dubbed by Bertrand Tavernier.
Suzanne's Career (La Carri?re de Suzanne) (1963), a 60-minute short film, continues Rohmer's cycle with the story of a timid student, Bertrand (Philippe Beuzen), who admires a callous older friend, Guillaume, for his lack of selfconciousness, rude manners, and easy ways with women, until they both fall for the same free-spirited girl, Suzanne (Catherine See), turning this tale into an awkward love triangle.
Both films were shot in ragged black-and-white 16mm photography that offers a strong sense of 1960s Paris. For those willing to spend the extra money, Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales - Criterion Collection offers an improved digital transfer to DVD.
G. Merritt
Summary of Suzanne's Career/Girl at the Monceau Bakery
In 1962, after having completed only one failed feature, critic turned director Eric Rohmer embarked on an ambitious plan to shoot six films around a common theme and a similar plot. With only limited resources at his disposal, the first two of his Six Moral Tales are short works shot in 16mm black-and-white. "The Girl at the Monceau Bakery" is a 25-minute sketch that sets the basic premise of the series: a young man interested in one woman is briefly attracted to a totally different girl. Shot on the streets of Paris with an easy naturalism and dominated by the young man's voice-over thoughts, it sets the tone of the series with a deft style, unforced humor, and an ironic tone. "Suzanne's Profession" expands to over 50 minutes to explore the awkward triangle between two best friends and a generous, seductive young woman they both shamelessly take advantage of. The men are callow, the women rather exasperating, the talk isn't as enchanting as in later films--and the ending feels, in retrospect, like an early draft of My Night at Maud's with the roles reversed. If his later films are more compelling and assured, the ambiguity of relationships and mercenary behavior of the characters in this early effort reveal a harsh cynicism that later mellowed into a wry irony. --Sean AxmakerArt House & International DVD Video
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