André Aciman on discovering Éric Rohmer | TIFF 2021
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Call Me by Your Name author André Aciman remembers the “life-changing” experience of seeing Éric Rohmer’s MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S, opening a gateway to the French master’s ultra-subtle oeuvre. Rohmer has become a guiding influence of much contemporary cinema: from Hong Sang-soo to Andrew Bujalski, Benjamin Crotty to Eugène Green, Corneliu Porombiou to - of all people - Quentin Tarantino.
Less aggressive, confessional, and iconoclastic than his New Wave cohorts, Rohmer did, however, share their voracious cinephilia. He made his mark first as a superb critic and later as the editor of Cahiers du Cinéma, championing such directors as Murnau, Hawks, Hitchcock, and Preminger. Having come late to films - “Until I was 16 I hadn’t seen a thing,” he confessed - Rohmer absorbed and exhibited his influences in a manner subtler than did Godard, Truffaut, or Rivette.
Rohmer maintained an almost religious adherence to realism, to a simple, unmannered rendering of the world whose clarity, plain arrangement, and quiet precision bespoke the rationality of his thought. This extended even to the realm of speech - before writing his scripts the director would spend hours in tape-recorded conversation with his actors in order to adapt his dialogue to their particular verbal styles - and speech, while not everything in Rohmer’s cinema, is its defining feature.
Rohmer’s characters search for happiness, truth, and self knowledge, but mostly they seek love. “I have not seen a Rohmer film I did not admire.” -Roger Ebert
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ROHMER AND ACIMAN, I LOVE THEM SO MUCH
I just watched Call Me By Your Name because of this video. It's amazing how much it looks like an Eric Rohmer film, especially at the start.
Yep -- totally copped that mise-en-scene.
The problem in Call Me By Your Name is that you could sense that the actor portraying Oliver was not an academic. It bothered me because it made me "leave" the story, you could sense the acting. I'm not saying the movie was bad, not at all, but it's something you don't feel in Rohmer's movie. You believe that Jean-Louis Trintignant is really interested about Mathematics and Pascal.
@@smoutchie Great insight; I completely get what you're saying and agree whole-heartedly.
As a long time fan of Rohmer I was confused watching Call Me: Rohmer didnt make this???!
@@neonpop80 that movie doesn't even compare
They say reading great literature can teach you so much about the world and the self. I would also say watching an Eric Rohmer film does the same thing. His insights into human behavior and the mind are on another level. A brilliant filmmaker.
Funny you should say that, as Rohmer’s original plan was to be a writer, not a filmmaker.
He was originally into literature so a lot of his references are to literature. He saw film as the last medium to convey that sort of artistry.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Er, that’s essentially what I just said. 🙄☝️
@@titteryenot4524 Firstly, I was not replying to you and secondly that is not what you wrote. By what you wrote he would have desired a modern literature which is not true.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Firstly, I don’t care that you weren’t replying to me. I was responding to you. Secondly, I don’t understand your second point and I’m not sure you do either.
Rohmer and Ozu--for me they are the pinnacle of fun, enthralling cinema.
mans really said 'wow, this is literally me' w
1:18: When I saw A Summer’s Tale for the first time, it didn’t just feel familiar. It was exactly me. Everything Gaspard says and feels. That’s me. Maybe I never got into that kind of a pickle of having to choose between so many women but I am sure that I’ll reach that point some point
I'm big fan of Andre aciman
A could hear him for hours
thank you for this
Re the list in the description, another filmmaker who owes a huge debt to Rohmer is Joanna Hogg, especially in her first two films, Unrelated and Archipelago, both good, the latter excellent.
Pretty sure he was also a fairly big influence on Richard Linklater's breakthrough movie Slacker, one of my favourite films. And I think I see a Rohmer look about Mike Mills' film Beginners, another favourite of mine.
The conversation-heavy Before Sunset (etc.) of Linklater seem to owe a debt to Rohmer's willingness to make films about dialogue rather than action.
@@thomascreeley3627 Yes, though, for me it's like a bad pastiche, a fantasy of a Rohmer film that imagines it's all just characters pleasurably philosophising forever, a sort of utopia of good conversation, whereas his actual films are doing a lot more than that. It's like the way a lot of directors who've probably got it from Rohmer seem to think it's enough just to show a character walking around a lot in muted, naturalistic lighting and miss the fact that in Rohmer, the characters also have interesting encounters in between walks, during which they try to solve actual problems, play mind games etc.
My favorite director all time
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Best filmmaker ever
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