The ever-reliable David Hudson tracks the Rohmer tributes at The Auteurs Daily.

I recall seeing Rohmer’s last film at the Toronto Film Festival in 2007:

Eric Rohmer has made a career out of chronicling the rituals of romance (and Romanticism), from the 6th century to the present, and from his celebrated film series, Six Moral Tales (1963 – 1972), Comedies and Proverbs (1981 – 1986), and Tales of the Four Seasons (1990 – 1998). And then there are those elegantly contrived period pictures that don’t fit into the series, like “Perceval,” “The Marquise of O,” “The Lady and the Duke” (which I haven’t seen) and now “Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon” (known in English-speaking Canada as “The Romance of Astrea and Celadon“).

Two of my favorite Rohmer films (perhaps my two very favorites) seem to be among his least-mentioned: “Perceval” and “Summer” (aka “Le Rayon vert”) — the former completely artificial (shot on a painted soundstage) and the latter an equally charming portrait of a romantic klutz.

“Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon” is a Rohmerian delight, another ritualized romance (highly mannered behavior, poetic language) played out in a naturalistic pastoral setting (an unblemished slice of French countryside around the River Lignon)….

(Continued here.)

Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.

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