Eric RohmerFilmography

Born:: April 4, 1920 in Nancy, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer
Biography:: The most subtle and traditional of the many luminaries launched to prominence as a member of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer is also among the movement's most consistent and enduring talents. Basing his work upon antecedents in literature as much as those in the cinema, Rohmer made his name...Read More

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The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andy Gillet, Stéphanie Crayencour, Cecile Cassel, Véronique Reymond, Rosette

Synopsis: Acclaimed French filmmaker Eric Rohmer adapts author Honoré d'Urfé's classic 17th century novel to craft this morally complex tale of romance concerning a young couple about to be betrothed, but driven apart by a tragic misunderstanding. Celadon (Andy Gillet) and Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour) are Read More

8/14/08
Out 1

Actors: Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier

Synopsis: Jacques Rivette's epic-scale meditation on art, politics and relationships is an eight-part, 740 minute drama that begins as an examination of two Parisian theater companies. Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's Seven Read More

2006
Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
Triple Agent

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Katerina Didaskalou, Serge Renko, Cyrielle Claire, Grigori Manoukov, Dimitri Rafalsky

Synopsis: Eric Rohmer, the globally-celebrated auteur behind Claire's Knee and Ma nuit chez Maud, helms Triple Agent, a riveting political drama set in 1930s France. The story is based on the historical account of Fyodor erge Renko, a Russian expatriate general filling the triple role of practicing Read More

2004
The Lady and the Duke

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Laurent Le Doyen, Marie Rivière, Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Francois Marthouret, Leonard Cobiant, Caroline Morin

Synopsis: Having finished his acclaimed cinematic quartet "Contes des quatre saisons," legendary filmmaker Eric Rohmer takes DV camera in hand to recreate this idiosyncratic period piece adapted from the Grace Elliot memoirs. Concerned with faithfully evoking 18th century France, Rohmer uses two strategies Read More

2001
Autumn Tale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt, Didier Sandre, Alexia Portal

Synopsis: The final installment in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons quartet of films examines matchmaking among the middle-aged and romance in the Rhone Valley. The target of the matchmakers is widowed vintner Magali (Béatrice Romand), alone at her vineyard after the departure of her grown children. Read More

9/23/98
A Summer's Tale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Aurelia Nolin, Gwenaëlle Simon

Synopsis: The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons quartet takes place in a resort town in Brittany. Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) has come to enjoy a vacation with his girlfriend, Lena (Aurelia Nolin). However, Lena has yet to arrive, and Gaspard finds his attention drawn to two other women Read More

5/6/96
Les Rendez-vous de Paris

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Clara Bellar, Serge Renko

Synopsis: Chance meetings provide the central theme for this Parisian film comprised of three loosely related episodes. The first, "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures," centers on Esther, who tries to make her womanizing boyfriend jealous by finding her own new lover. She finds a likely candidate in a Montmartre Read More

3/22/95
Citizen Langlois

Synopsis: This French documentary pays homage to a young man whose passion left a rich and valuable legacy to the world of cinema. Henri Langlois was one of the co-founders of the Cinematheque Francaise, a museum which contains many rare artifacts from early cinema as well as one of the most extensive film Read More

1995
L'Arbre, le Maire et la Mediatheque

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pascal Greggory, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, Clementine Amouroux

Synopsis: The mayor (Pascal Greggory) of this unpolished provincial town has plans for a beautiful field on the edge of town, and he's quite sure they will be put through the central government in time to help him with his political career. He intends to replace the field with a sports and "cultural" Read More

10/2/93
A Tale of Winter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Charlotte Véry, Frédéric Van Den Driessche, Michel Voletti, Hervé Furic

Synopsis: A Tale of Winter is the second installment in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. Félicie (Charlotte Véry) and Charles (Frédéric Van Den Driessche) had a brief affair during a seaside vacation. Then Charles went abroad on business, and Félicie gave him her address so they could stay in touch; Read More

1/29/92
A Tale of Springtime

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Teyssedre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloise Bennett, Sophie Robin

Synopsis: French filmmaker Eric Rohmer begins his Tales of the Four Seasons series with A Tale of Springtime. Parisian philosophy teacher Jeanne (Anne Teyssedre) is temporarily without a place to stay as her cousin occupies her own home and she refuses to stay in her boyfriend's messy apartment while he is Read More

4/4/90
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Laudenbach, Joëlle Miquel, Fabrice Luchini, Jessica Forde, Marie Rivière

Synopsis: This episodic film comes from French director Eric Rohmer and is the seventh and final installment in the filmmaker's Comedies and Proverbs cycle. Reinette (Joëlle Miquel) is as innocent as a newborn babe, while Mirabelle (Jessica Forde) is as worldly and sophisticated as Reinette is not. Their Read More

7/21/89
Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, Eric Viellard, François-Eric Gendron

Synopsis: Boyfriends & Girlfriends is the sixth of French director Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes" cycle. The sterility of the "new", prefabricated Parisian suburb of Cergy-Pontoise is used as the backdrop for the colorful activities of the film's five principals (literally colorful, in that each Read More

7/15/88
Les Pyramides Bleues

Crew: Artistic Advisor

Actors: Omar Sharif, Arielle Dombasle, Hippolyte Girardot, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: Elise (Arielle Dombasle) is content being the lover of Alex (Omar Sharif), a wealthy magnate who lavishes her with attention and money. When she gets religious and decides to hide from him in a French convent, Alex hires agents to bring her back. He offers money to the corrupt cult leader Noah (Pierre Vaneck Read More

1988
Summer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Rivière, Rosette, Amira Chemakhi, Béatrice Romand, Sylvia Richez, Lisa Heredia, Vincent Gauthier, Basile Gervaise

Synopsis: Summer (Le Rayon Vert) is the fifth of French director Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes" movie cycle. Left out of everyone's Summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Marie Riviere (Rohmer's star in all of the "Comedies et Proverbes") accepts an invitation to stay at her friend's empty Read More

8/29/86
Full Moon in Paris

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, Tchéky Karyo, Christian Vadim, Virginie Thévenet

Synopsis: A young woman looks for the true meaning of love and learns the truth of the old saw, "You don't know what you've got until it's gone," in this fourth installment in Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs series. The story opens with the proverb, "He who has two women loses his soul. He who has two Read More

1984
Pauline at the Beach

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine, Simon de la Brosse

Synopsis: Pauline a la Plage is the third of French filmmaker Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes." Pauline (Amanda Langlet) is the teen-aged cousin of the seemingly more worldly and sensible Marion (Arielle Dombasle). Both girls become entwined in amorous escapades while vacationing at the beach. It Read More

1983
A Good Marriage

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Béatrice Romand, André Dussollier, Arielle Dombasle, Féodor Atkine, Huguette Faget

Synopsis: Le Beau Marriage, aka The Perfect Marriage, is the second of Eric Rohmer's "Comedies et Proverbes". Beatrice Romand (the adolescent star of Rohmer's Claire's Knee, now nicely grown up) impulsively decides that Andre Dussolier-whom she barely knows--would make an ideal husband. Now she must Read More

1982
The Aviator's Wife

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Marlaud, Marie Rivière, Anne-Laure Meury, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: In this first film in Eric Rohmer's cycle of "Comédies et proverbes," François (Philippe Marlaud), a young student working nights as a postman, is in love with a slightly older woman, Anne (Marie Rivière). One day, he sees Anne's former lover, a pilot named Christian (Mathieu Carrière), leaving Read More

1981
Perceval

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marc Eyraud

Synopsis: This dignified and stylized film, set in the Middle Ages, follows the exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table. The story is based on the verse tale Perceval ou le Conte del Graal. as recounted by the 12th-century Read More

2/7/79
The Marquise of O

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel, Otto Sander

Synopsis: The costume drama Die Marquise von O is French director Eric Rohmer's first feature-length theatrical release after a four-year break from filmmaking. Based on a short story by Henrich von Kleist, the dialogue is spoken in the original German language and the story is set in Italy during the Read More

1976
Chloe in the Afternoon

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Francoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi, Malvina Penne

Synopsis: Eric Rohmer ends his cycle of "Six Moral Tales" with this delightful film starring Bernard Verley as Frederic, a happily married man who discovers that he can't stop looking at beautiful women. As he says in a voiceover, "I feel marriage closes me in, cloisters me, and I want to escape." His Read More

1972
Claire's Knee

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Fabrice Luchini

Synopsis: The fifth of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales," Claire's Knee is a deliciously Rohmeresque story of sexual obsession. French diplomat Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), on a resort vacation, meets Claire (Laurence De Monaghan), the teen-aged daughter of a friend. Though engaged to be married, Jerome falls Read More

1970
My Night at Maud's

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Antoine Vitez, Marie-Christine Barrault, Anne Dubot

Synopsis: The "my" in My Night At Maud's belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with a woman he's never met (Marie-Christine Barrault) while attending mass. A chance meeting with an amoral old Read More

1969
La Collectionneuse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Haydee Politoff, Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle, Mijanou Bardot, Eugene Archer

Synopsis: La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, La Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour). Patrick Bauchau Read More

1967
Paris vu Par...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Micheline Dax, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Nadine Ballot, Barbara Wilkin, Jean-Michel Rouziere, Jean-Francois Chappey, Joanna Shimkus

Synopsis: A sextet of French filmmakers collaborated on Six in Paris (originally Paris vu Par...) Jean Douchet directed the film's first episode, "Saint Germain-des-Pres," the story of the up-and-down relationship between a male model (Jean-Francois Chappey) and an American coed (Barbara Wilkin). Jean Read More

1965
Nadja A Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Nadja Tesich

Synopsis: Nadja a Paris is an early short film from French New Wave director Eric Rohmer, written by and starring Nadja Tesich and produced by Barbet Schroeder. This is the first film collaboration between Rohmer and cinematographer Néstor Almendros. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
La Carriere de Suzanne

Crew: Director

Actors: Christian Charriere

Synopsis: Suzanne's Career is the second of six short films that make up the Six Moral Tales series by French New Wave director Eric Rohmer. This 54-minute segment was shot in Paris with 16 mm black-and-white film. Bertrand (Philippe Beuzen) and Guillaume (Christian Charrière) are friends. They take Read More

1963
La Boulangere de Monceau

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbet Schroeder, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: La Boulangere De Monceau (The Girl at the Monceau Bakery is the first of six short films that make up the Six Moral Tales series by French New Wave director Eric Rohmer. This 25-minute segment was shot in Paris with 16 mm black-and-white film. Barbet Schroeder (who also produced) plays a young Read More

1963
Le Signe du Lion

Crew: Director

Actors: Jess Hahn, Jean Le Poulain, Van Doude, Michéle Girardon, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: This was the first film directed by Eric Rohmer, and although it is not without flaws, this story of a down-and-out foreigner in Paris has its merits. Pierre (Jess Hahn) is a music student and already living on a shoestring when he hears that he has inherited a large sum of money. But just when it Read More

1959
Tous les Garcons S'Appellent Patrick

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Ann Colette, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: Charlotte et Véronique, also known as Tous les garcons s'appellent Patrick, was one of five shorts Jean-Luc Godard made in collaboration with his Cahiers du Cinema cohorts in the late '50s and early '60s, prior to embarking on feature films. The script was written by Eric Rohmer and is a slight Read More

1957
Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Luc Godard

1951