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Eric Rohmer Centennial: Six Moral Tales
Saturday, April 11, 2020 at 10:45AM by Eric Blume
Last weekend marked the 100th birthday of one of France’s greatest directors, Eric Rohmer, and we here at TFE figured that a nice way to celebrate him would be a look back at the six-film series that launched his career, the Six Moral Tales, which were released between 1962 and 1972.
These films basically have the same plot: a man obsessed or in love with one girl finds himself distracted by another woman, only to return to the first girl. Rohmer uses this framework to examine the stunted male psyche, the rationalizations of behavior, and the mystery of love...