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.
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
Available In
Collector's Set
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
Cast
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Jerôme
- Aurora Cornu
- Aurora
- Béatrice Romand
- Laura
- Laurence de Monaghan
- Claire
- Michèle Montel
- Madame Walter
- Gérard Falconetti
- Gilles
- Fabrice Luchini
- Vincent
Credits
- Director
- Eric Rohmer
- Producer
- Barbet Schroeder
- Producer
- Pierre Cottrell
- Cinematography
- Nestor Almendros
- Cinematography
- Jean-Claude Rivière
- Cinematography
- Philippe Rousselot
- Sound
- Jean-Pierre Ruh
- Sound
- Michel Laurent
- Editing
- Cécile Decugis
- Editing
- Martine Kalfon
- Associate producer
- Alfred de Graaff
- Continuity
- Michel Fleury
- Gaffer
- Jean-Claude Gasché
- Still photography
- Bernard Prim
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