Rohmer biography
- This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests and relations.
- A biography about the French filmmaker and critic Éric Rohmer, written by Antoine de Baecque [fr] and Noël Herpe [fr].
- Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer, was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher.
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Éric Rohmer
French film director (1920–2010)
Éric Rohmer | |
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Rohmer at the Cinémathèque Française in 2004 | |
| Born | Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer (1920-03-21)21 March 1920 Tulle, France |
| Died | 11 January 2010(2010-01-11) (aged 89) Paris, France |
| Occupations | |
| Years active | 1945–2009 |
| Spouse | Thérèse Schérer (m. 1957) |
| Children | 2 |
Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (French:[eʁikʁomɛʁ]; 21 March 1920[a] – 11 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War IIFrench New Wave directors to become established. He edited the influential film journal Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues—among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut—were making the transition from critics to filmmakers and gaining international attention.
Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 whe
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A life with no story: Eric Rohmer: A Biography, by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe
Issue 84
One hundred and twenty-seven pages into this substantial biography of Eric Rohmer, Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, having described their subject’s quotidian routines, throw up their hands in seeming despair at the fact that Rohmer’s
life has almost no interest for the biographer! Without scandal or uncomfortable secrets, it was simple, tranquil, reassuring and no doubt dull; but certainly happy, like everything that has no story. (p. 127)
Such frustration begs the question; what is the purpose of a book of over 500 pages chronicling a life of so little event? A substantial and growing bibliography exists concerning Rohmer’s work. What does a biography add? This little outburst of authorial hair tugging opens the more complex issue of the link between the life of an artist and the work that life produced.
Eric Rohmer
When one is interested in a body of work one can not help but be curious as to the person who created it. Before his death, there was something powerful
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Éric Rohmer: A Biography
2014 book by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe
| Author | |
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| Original title | Éric Rohmer : biographie |
| Translator | |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Éric Rohmer |
| Genre | biography |
| Publisher | Stock |
Publication date | 3 January 2014 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | June 2016 |
| Pages | 608 |
| ISBN | 9782234075610 |
Éric Rohmer: A Biography (French: Éric Rohmer : biographie) is a biography about the French filmmaker and critic Éric Rohmer, written by Antoine de Baecque [fr] and Noël Herpe [fr]. It was published in French by Stock in 2014 and in English by Columbia University Press in 2016. It covers Rohmer's work as a filmmaker, his association with the French New Wave, his work for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma and how he constructed his films as "traps" for the characters.[1][2][3][4]
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