France
1970
106 minutes
Color
1.33:1
French
347
“Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura’s long-legged, blonde stepsister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jerôme’s moral crisis and creates both one of French cinema’s most enduring moments and what has become the iconic image of Rohmer’s Moral Tales.
| Jerôme | Jean-Claude Brialy |
| Aurora | Aurora Cornu |
| Laura | Béatrice Romand |
| Claire | Laurence de Monaghan |
| Madame Walter | Michèle Montel |
| Gilles | Gérard Falconetti |
| Vincent | Fabrice Luchini |
| Director | Eric Rohmer |
| Producer | Barbet Schroeder and Pierre Cottrell |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros, Jean-Claude Rivière and Philippe Rousselot |
| Sound | Jean-Pierre Ruh and Michel Laurent |
| Editing | Cécile Decugis and Martine Kalfon |
| Associate producer | Alfred de Graaff |
| Continuity | Michel Fleury |
| Gaffer | Jean-Claude Gasché |
| Still photography | Bernard Prim |
It’s both hard and not so hard to believe that eric rohmer’s six moral tales were conceived—indeed, written initially—as a novel. On the one hand, he’s the grand master of dialogue as an instrument of narrative. His characters muse, reflect, analyze, insult, tease, provoke, skirmish, flirt, philosophize...
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