The Films of Eric Rohmer, Ranked

“The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.” – Stéphane Mallarmé

YAKIR: What is the relationship between cinema and literature?

ROHMER: They are at once similar and different. A film tells a
story, but a story can also be told in writing. It is very difficult to
make a good film out of a bad story. By contrast, simply because
the story is good does not mean that the film adapted from it is
literary and therefore bad. Many filmmakers dream of making films
without stories, in which there would be no ‘literature’, but I think
this is a false...