A Few Moments with Éric Rohmer

En compagnie d'Éric Rohmer

France

2010

100 Min

Color

French

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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CAST Éric Rohmer, Marie Rivière, Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, François Ozon, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Mary Stephen, Pascal Ribier

ED Rémi Crépeau, Marie Rivière, Catherine Stragan, Julie Borvon

Venice

Synopsis

Marie Rivière is a frequent cast member in the films of Eric Rohmer. In 1978, she made her feature debut in his Perceval le Gallois, a poetic adventure drama set in medieval times. Her first leading role was as the wife of a jealous young student in La Femme de l’Aviateur, the first of six films in Rohmer’s series known as Comédies et proverbes. In her documentary En compagnie d’Eric Rohmer Rohmer himself talks to artists such as Arielle Dombasle, Fabrice Luchini, Andy Gillet, François Ozon, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Rosette and Noémie Lvovsky about their relationship to him as a director and as a friend. —Viennale

Director

Marie Rivière

Marie Rivière (born December 22, 1956) is a French actress. She is one of the preferred actresses of the director Éric Rohmer. From a working class background, Marie Rivière grew up on a housing estate/project in Montreuil before working as a schoolteacher, then as a shop assistant. At 21, having seen L’Amour l’après-midi she sent a letter and photo to Éric Rohmer. He saw her in his office at Films du Losange, in the presence of Arielle Dombasle and Thierry Lhermitte, and offered her a small role in Perceval le Gallois. Two years later she appeared in Rohmer’s The Aviator’s Wife , the first in the Comédies et Proverbes series. The Green Ray, in which she played the fragile dreamer Delphine, was a critical and popular success, and won the Golden Lion at Venice. In 1998 she appeared again for Rohmer in Conte d’automne (Autumn Tale), alongside another Rohmer muse, Béatrice Romand. She co-directed her first film in 1993, with Marc Rivière, La Règle du Silence. —Wikipedia read more