Match Cut Director Consensus - Eric Rohmer

[Ezee E]

Rate the highly requested director! Does he get past a page? I predict no, prove me wrong!

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[Boner M]

My Night With Maud - 7.5
Claire's Knee - 8.5
The Green Ray - 9
An Autumn Tale - 7

[baby doll]

Ma nuit chez Maud (1969) [7]
Le Genou de Claire (1970) [8]
Perceval le Gallois (1978) [10]
Le Femme de l'aviateur (1981) [6]
Le Beau mariage (1982) [6]
Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984) [7]
L'Ami de mon amie (1987) [6]
Conte d'automne (1998) [7]
L'Anglaise et le duc (2001) [9]
Triple Agent (2004) [8]
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (2007) [7]

[Ezee E]

Please put them in English baby_doll. Otherwise I'll try my best to decode them, but I'm not fluent in French.

[baby doll]

Fine.

My Night at Maud's (1969) [7]
Claire's Knee (1970) [8]
Perceval le Gallois (1978) [10]
The Aviator's Wife (1981) [6]
A Good Mariage (1982) [6]
Full Moon in Paris (1984) [7]
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) [6]
Autumn Tale (1998) [7]
The Lady and the Duke (2001) [9]
Triple Agent (2004) [8]
The Romance of Astrée and Céladon (2007) [7]

[Weeping_Guitar]

Suzanne's Career - 6
Girl at the Monceau Bakery - 6.5
La Collectionneuse - 6.5
My Night at Maud's - 8.5
Claire's Knee - 9
Love in the Afternoon - 7.5
Pauline at the Beach - 6.5
Summer [The Green Ray] - 7.5
A Tale of Springtime - 6
A Tale of Winter - 8.5
A Summer's Tale - 7.5
Romance of Astrée and Celadon - 6

[Spinal]

Claire's Knee - 8
Chloe in the Afternoon - 7.5
A Tale of Winter - 8

[Mysterious Dude]

My Night at Maud's (1969) - 6.5
Claire's Knee (1970) - 6.0
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) - 7.5

[Kurosawa Fan]

Nada. :sad:

[Spaceman Spiff]

Nada. :sad:

Same here, and I'm not quite exactly sure why as he sounds like my kind of guy.

Will try to rent Six Moral Tales from the school library some time this coming week.

[Bosco B Thug]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery - 6.5
Suzanne's Career - 8
My Night at Maud's - 8
Claire's Knee - 7.5
Chloe in the Afternoon - 8.5

[Ezee E]

Nada here either, with no idea where to start really. Chloe in the AFternoon?

[Spinal]

Nada here either, with no idea where to start really. Chloe in the AFternoon?

Seems like a reasonable place to start to me.

[Yxklyx]

My Night at Maud's - 4
Claire's Knee - 6

[Raiders]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1963) 7.5
Suzanne's Career (1963) 6.0
La Collectionneuse (1967) 6.5
My Night at Maud's (1969) 8.5
Claire's Knee (1970) 7.0
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) 8.0
The Marquis of O... (1976) 7.5
The Aviator's Wife (1981) 7.0
Pauline at the Beach (1983) 5.5
The Green Ray (1986) 10.0
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) 7.5
A Tale of Springtime (1990) 7.0
A Tale of Winter (1992) 9.0
A Summer's Tale (1996) 7.5
Autumn Tale (1998) 8.0
The Lady and the Duke (2001) 8.0

[Derek]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery - 7.5
Suzanne's Career - 7.0
La Collectionneuse 7.0
My Night at Maud's - 7.0
Claire's Knee - 7.0
The Marquis of O... - 8.0
The Green Ray - 8.5
Triple Agent - 5.5

[soitgoes...]

Véronique and Her Dunce (1958) - 5.5
The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1963) - 7.5
Suzanne's Career (1963) - 7.0
Nadja in Paris (1964) - 3.5
La Collectionneuse (1967) - 6.5
My Night at Maud's (1969) - 10
Claire's Knee (1970) - 8.5
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) - 7.5
Pauline at the Beach (1983) - 7.0
The Green Ray (1986) - 9.0
A Tale of Springtime (1990) - 6.5
A Tale of Winter (1992) - 8.0

[MadMan]

Nada. :sad:Ditto. If it wasn't for the internet, I wouldn't have even heard of the guy in the first place.

[soitgoes...]

Does he get past a page? I predict no, prove me wrong!

He should. He is a pretty big name in French cinema.

[Sycophant]

My Night at Maud's - 9.0

[dreamdead]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1963) 7.5
Suzanne's Career (1963) 6.0
La Collectionneuse (1967) 7.0
My Night at Maud's (1969) 10
Claire's Knee (1970) 8.5
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) 8.0
The Marquis of O... (1976) 7.5
The Aviator's Wife (1981) 6.5
Pauline at the Beach (1983) 7.0
Full Moon in Paris (1984) 5.5
The Green Ray (1986) 10
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) 6.0
A Tale of Springtime (1990) 8.0
A Tale of Winter (1992) 10
A Summer's Tale (1996) 7.0

[baby doll]

Wait, if I'm the only person to vote for Perceval le Gallois, does that mean it gets a perfect ten?

[Ezee E]

Wait, if I'm the only person to vote for Perceval le Gallois, does that mean it gets a perfect ten?
4 people need to see it to "qualify"

[NickGlass]

Rohmer seems like my type of French, chatterbox guy, which makes me disappointed that I have only seen these two:

La Collectionneuse: 7.0
My Night at Maud's: 8.5

[lovejuice]

is MAUD really that good? i read the script/story, and it seems too unfocused and all over the place. my favorite out of the six is CHLOE, which is also an amazing movie. (my thought in the screenplay thread.)

[balmakboor]

I saw a few of these about 22 years ago. I'm sure there's a reason it's been 22 years. I should give him another shot though.

[baby doll]

is MAUD really that good?No.

[dreamdead]

is MAUD really that good? i read the script/story, and it seems too unfocused and all over the place. my favorite out of the six is CHLOE, which is also an amazing movie. (my thought in the screenplay thread.)

I remember it fondly being messy in a rich, lived-in style, where issues of Christian morality are constantly in battle with a bourgeois lifestyle that accepts such transgression. Whereas someone like Truffaut celebrated a rise toward maturity and Godard challenged cinematic (capitalistic) assumptions, Rohmer displays a more engaging assessment of gender and female agency, even if the Six Moral Tales seems to initially present the same old codified impression of male subjectivity. I love the sense that in Rohmer we get someone who is still somewhat of a moralist even if he presents his scripts in ways that make us question how his characters define morality... and I love the hints of a free (and feminine-coded) transcendence that is possible in Love/Chloe in the Afternoon, and even see it here in Maud...


No.

Perceval isn't available from Netflix anymore, otherwise I'd have tracked down that one by now. However, I am intrigued by your placement of Rohmer's historical pictures as containing his best work. Save for The Marquise of O, which I rather loved in its bleached out oranges and painterly framing, I have only sought out his films based in contemporary times. What makes his adaptations resonate for you?

[thefourthwall]

My Night at Maud's (1969) 9.5
Claire's Knee (1970) 8.5
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) 8.5
The Green Ray (1986) 9
A Tale of Winter (1992) 9
A Summer's Tale (1996) 8

[jesse]

Rohmer seems like my type of French, chatterbox guy, which makes me disappointed that I have only seen these two: Yeah, same for me, though I'll offer up the excuse he's on my short list of directors I want to take some time and really closely evaluate at some point. I've really liked everything I've seen so far...

(In English, especially for E: )

La Collectionneuse - 7.0
My Night at Maud's - 8.5
The Marquise of O - 9.0
The Romance of Astrea and Celedon - 8.0

[baby doll]

Perceval isn't available from Netflix anymore, otherwise I'd have tracked down that one by now. However, I am intrigued by your placement of Rohmer's historical pictures as containing his best work. Save for The Marquise of O, which I rather loved in its bleached out oranges and painterly framing, I have only sought out his films based in contemporary times. What makes his adaptations resonate for you?Perceval le Gallois in particular stands out for its hilariously artificial style (a complete U-turn from his usual hyper-realism), and it's probably his most accomplished film as storytelling, as well.

After that, L'Anglaise et le duc has the most interesting subject of any Rohmer film (namely, the French revolution), and in terms of story, it's a good deal more gripping and suspenseful than any of his romantic dramas.

Triple Agent is more conventional than those films in terms of its style, but it has the second most interesting subject of any of Rohmer's films, and there's so much here to grapple with that I still don't feel as though I've exhausted it, even after three viewings.

Alas, Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon isn't as good as those films because here the period (the fifth century) and subject (once again, heterosexual love) preclude politics of any kind, nor is it as formally accomplished as Perceval le Gallois. Still, this is never less than masterful as storytelling, and it's enough of a departure from his usual boiler plate that I wasn't bored by the repetition.

[thefourthwall]

Rate the highly requested director! Does he get past a page? I predict no, prove me wrong!
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w00t!

[Ezee E]

Strong work people.

Make this happen for King Hu.

[Sycophant]

I swore I was going to try to consume as much of his filmography as possible right after watching My Night at Maud's last Fall, but just haven't watched many movies since then. I need to fill my queue with Rohmer and just go for it.

[soitgoes...]

Strong work people.

Make this happen for King Hu.
It won't, unless Mr. Davis throws down 20 posts himself.

[thefourthwall]

Added in Claire's Knee! :)

[Ezee E]

Added in Claire's Knee! :)
Nice. Completely forgot about this. I'll get to it today.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1963) 7
Suzanne's Career (1963) 7
La Collectionneuse (1967) 5
My Night at Maud's (1969) 9
Claire's Knee (1970) 10
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972) 8

[Ezee E]

Yeah, sorry peeps. Busy day today. Tomorrow will be busy too for a while.

[thefourthwall]

Results:
1. The Green Ray - 9.0* (7)
2. A Tale of Winter - 8.75 (6)
3. My Night at Maud's - 8.1 (15)
4. The Marquis of O... - 8.0 (4)
5. Chloe in the Afternoon - 7.889 (9)
6. Claire's Knee- 7.885 (15)
7. A Summer's Tale - 7.5 (4)
8. The Girl at the Monceau Bakery - 7.14 (7)
9. A Tale of Springtime - 6.86 (4)
10. Suzanne's Career - 6.71 (7)
11. La Collectionneuse - 6.56 (8)
12. Pauline at the Beach - 6.50 (4)

EDIT: Overall 7.58

Does Not Qualify:
Perceval le Gallois - 10 (1)
The Lady and the Duke - 8.5 (2)
Autumn Tale - 7.33 (3)
Romance of Astree and Celadon - 7 (3)
Triple Agent - 6.75 (2)
The Aviator's Wife - 6.67 (3)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends - 6.5 (3)
Full Moon in Paris - 6.25 (2)
Good Marriage - 6 (1)
Veronique and Her Dunce - 5.5 (1)
Nadja in Paris - 3.5 (1)

I think this means a new entry into the hall of fame???

[Ezee E]

Thanks for doing this again!

I've never even heard of the new hall of famer movie.

[thefourthwall]

Fan Results: Average Rating (#seen)
thefourthwall - 8.75 (6)
jesse - 8.13 (4)
Boner M - 8 (4)
Bosco_B_Thug - 7.7 (5)
Kurious_Jorge_v3.1 - 7.67 (6)
dreamdead - 7.63 (15)
Raiders - 7.56 (16)
baby_doll - 7.36 (11)
soitgoes... - 7.21 (12)
Derek - 7.19 (8)
Weeping_Guitar - 7.17 (12)

Does not Qualify:
Sycophant - 9 (1)
Spinal - 7.83 (3)
NickGlass - 7.75 (2)
Antoine - 6.67 (3)
Yxklyx - 5 (2)

[thefourthwall]

Thanks for doing this again!

I've never even heard of the new hall of famer movie.

No problem. I've even got the Excel file to prove it!

[Raiders]

dreamdead (15)
Raiders (16)

:pritch:

[Sycophant]

Does not Qualify:
Sycophant - 9 (1)


I understand why this is the way it is, but the phrasing still hurts.

[dreamdead]

:pritch:

Even if I have to soothe myself by knocking out the other three or four R1 Rohmer's after the fact, I will beat you in terms of pure volume of viewings by year's end. Small reward, but a reward nonetheless. I am pleased, though, that Summer is the representative film of his, as I fondly remember your old review for that one spurring me back in '05 to start digging into his filmography. Though incredibly slow in terms of narrative style, it's held its own remarkably well. And I can't fault those top three at all, really.

[StanleyK]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery - 7
Suzanne's Career - 8
La Collectionneuse - 9
My Night at Maud's - 8.5
Claire's Knee - 10
Chloe in the Afternoon - 9
Pauline at the Beach - 10

Why the low ratings for Pauline at the Beach?

[baby doll]

dreamdead (15)
Raiders (16)
baby_doll (11)
soitgoes... (12)
Weeping_Guitar (12)And yet I'm the only one who's seen Perceval le Gallois. As Gob Bluth would say, Come on!

[baby doll]

Does Not Qualify:
The Lady and the Duke - 8.5 (2)
Autumn Tale - 7.33 (3)
Romance of Astree and Celadon - 7 (3)
Triple Agent - 6.75 (2)Also, what's up with this? None of his films from the last decade or so--his richest, most adventurous period--got enough votes to qualify.

[Ezee E]

The Girl at the Monceau Bakery - 7
Suzanne's Career - 8
La Collectionneuse - 9
My Night at Maud's - 8.5
Claire's Knee - 10
Chloe in the Afternoon - 9
Pauline at the Beach - 10

Why the low ratings for Pauline at the Beach?
Please post this in the main consensus thread.

[StanleyK]

Please post this in the main consensus thread.

Are these going to be counted? I posted mainly to know what's up with the low ratings for Pauline at the Beach.

[Raiders]

Hey, timely (must have been my espn). Just saw Perceval yesterday and it certainly rivals The Green Ray in terms of quality. I haven't written an actual review in a while, so I think I'll set to task on this one.

[Ezee E]

Are these going to be counted? I posted mainly to know what's up with the low ratings for Pauline at the Beach.
Yeah, any updates in the main consensus thread will be updated.