In 1955, Éric Rohmer published a series of articles entitled Le Celluloïd et le Marbre in the Cahiers du cinéma. He made a controversial and disenchanted survey of the 20th century, to better enhance by contrast the true modernity of cinema. Ten years later, Rohmer uses this principle in a film where he asks a number of contemporary artists to situate their art in relation to cinema.Read More »
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Unlike the erotic surrealism mastery of his peer-filmmakers such as Buñuel, Robbe-Grillet and even Raúl Ruiz, Pierre Zucca in his Roberte (adapted from Pierre Klossowski’s novel) tends mostly toward a “non-professionalism” and aesthetical economy. Where the enchanting force of his work is driven by an atmospheric sense of strangeness and oddity, an ambient surreality: a complex simplicity, when precisely less is more!Read More »
An extremely rare episode of Cinéastes de notre temps directed by Eric Rohmer based of a series of articles written in Cahiers du cinema in the 1950s.Read More »