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Eric Rohmer: The Colourist of the Games of Love and Chance

by Pierre Albert Lambert
*** A new film by Eric Rohmer is always an event for cinema-lovers as, despite Its reduced audience, his work Is greatly considered as among the most important In French cinema. Playing In French auditoriums recently. his 'Conte d H'ver- (Winter s Tale) is no exception. ***
WHO remembers that, in the 50s. Rohmer was one of the creators of the "New Wave.' together with Truffaut. Chabrol. Godard and Rlvctte? At the age of 71. after a career spanning forty years, the man remains as secretive as ever. He hates talking about himself, shuns festivals and cannot bear society events.
His grandparents, who came from Alsace, sought refuge in the Correze region after the 1870 defeat and Rohmer himself went up to Paris at the age of 20 finish his studies in literatures. First of all he taught literature before moving onto television for schools. In 1963. while, al the same lime. teaching cinema al
It was at this time that, at the cinema library, he learnt the works of those he consid ered as hfs masters, by heart: Renoir. Welles, Hawks. Rossellini and Mozoguchi, to whom he devoted learned articles in 'Les Cable rs du Cinema.'
In 1962, he shot "Lc Sign du Lion," as an amateur and without a budget. A friend lent him the camera and another one provided the film. The story was a very personal moral fable which set the tone for what Rohmer's work was to be. but he did not become known until 1967 with 'La CoBcetion-ncuse '
With his long, slim figure and his bonze-like lined face, those close to him describe him as an ascete who mainly lives on tea and crackers, but also as a rlgorist combined with an eccentric.
He has been called "the wsterco tourist of the wanderings of the heart and mind" and "the colourist of the games of love and chance " "I attempt to describe beings as they are." the film-maker, who has always been fascinated by young women, replies simply.
Their torments In love have always dominated Rohmer's world From film to film, he has described the whole . palette of them : passion-love, reason-love, friendship-love, etc. His Important films showing this Include Ma nult chat Maude" (I960). Le genou de Claire" (1970). "Lamour rapresmidt" (1972). "La Femme de l Aviateur" (1981), Pauline a la plage" (1983).
"Lea Nulls de pleine lune" (1984), "Qua!re avenlures de RLtfMtte et Mirabelle" (1987). and X' ami de mon amle."
Rohmers unit Music
With a subtle scalpel. Rohmer explores the Intimate dolly Ilves of his heroines He sounds their little secrete and all the nuances of their feel
Ings, from moral rigour tn some to libertine temptations In others. The men are generally only there to set off the women.
Violence, object poverty and death rarely have their place In the work of this director who goes against fashionable trends. "Spectacular and extreme situations do not interest me." he reiterates "Society is. above al), made up of ordinary people that the papers do not apeak about. They are the ones who attract me. I like to tranalate what makes them tick, into pictures."
His actors, who are unknown or beginners, seem to live their own Ilves on the screen. He h- them speak ev-
cryday language. There are few qfrcfully prepared dialogues but, on the contrary, frequent Improvisation during filming.
Hence the tone of aiithen-Ucity and trut)^ which characterizes "Rohmer's little music' that the critics speak of. It la a bitter-sweet music, tinted with humour and producing emotion which leaves one charmed, as with "Le Conte d’Htver' for which he got the Idea from Shakespeare.
The film begins with the last moments of a holiday love affair. Feltcte. a young Paris hairdresser, gives her address to Charles whom she has loved passionately for a few weeks.
In her emotion, she makes a slip and confuses the names of two towns in the suburbs, so that the lovers are unable to get tn touch with each other.
Years go by. Feltcte brings ' up her little girl born of her love affair with Charles. She has affairs with other men. but only one matters, the one she has lost. Against all likelihood, she remains convinced that shd will find him again. And . then, one day. In the midst el an anonymous crowd on •
The moral of the story, for Rohmer's tales always have one. to that one should behave
in unexpected wonders It to not the first time that the filmmaker tackles the theme of wonders. It was already the case in Xe Rayon Vert" which won him the “Golden Lton“ at the Venice Biennale tn 1988.)
Critics did not fell to reproach him the melodramatfc aspect of the ending to Xe Conte d'Htver.' The director answers : The iqiracte took over during filming and 1 did not want to change anything. Moreover. Isn't life often * melodrama?'