Claire’s Knee

“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.

Eric Rohmer
France
1970
106 minutes
Color
1.33:1
French
Spine #347

Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
Rohmer’s short film The Curve (1999)
An excerpt from the French television program Le journal du cinéma, featuring interviews with Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, and Laurence de Monahagan
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation

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Six Moral Tales

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6 Discs

$79.96

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Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
Rohmer’s short film The Curve (1999)
An excerpt from the French television program Le journal du cinéma, featuring interviews with Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, and Laurence de Monahagan
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation