Synopsis
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men. Rohmer’s first color film, La collectionneuse pushes the Moral Tales into new, darker realms. Yet it is also a grand showcase for the clever and delectably ironic battle-of-the-sexes repartee (in a witty script written by Rohmer and the three main actors) and luscious, effortless Néstor Almendros photography that would define the remainder of the series.
Cast
| Haydée | Haydée Politoff |
| Adrien | Patrick Bauchau |
| Daniel | Daniel Pommereulle |
| Writer | Alain Jouffroy |
| Carole | Mijanou |
| Carole's friend | Annik Morice |
| Charlie | Denis Berry |
| Sam | Seymour Hertzberg |
Credits
| Director | Eric Rohmer |
| Producer | Georges de Beauregard and Barbet Schroeder |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros |
| Music | Blossom Toes and Giorgio Gomelsky |
| Editing | Jacquie Raynal |
| Associate producer | Alfred de Graaff |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
- Rohmer’s short film A Modern Coed (1966)
- A 1977 episode of the TVOntario program Parlons cinema, featuring an interview with Rohmer on La collectionneuse
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
From the Current
La collectionneuse: Marking Time
by Aug 14, 2006La collectionneuse is a strong, sensuously lush, deceptively slight film, a riviera fruit with a bitter, uncompromising aftertaste. In retrospect, it is both classically Rohmer-esque and atypical, as befits a film in which the director was still finding his way. The first full-length feature...
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