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The bakery girl of Monceau: It is the story of a young man who becomes infatuated with a woman he sees on the street, but after several days without seeing her again sets his sights on a girl in the local bakery, eventually having to choose between them. Suzanne's career: Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when the ladies' man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly show more with disapproval and jealousy. My night at Maud's: Jean-Louis Trintignant plays an engineer seeking the perfect mate. Just when he thinks he has found her, he finds himself accidentally spending the night sharing the bed of a seductive divorcee, Maud. La collectionneuse: A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a "collector" of men. Claire's knee: Jérôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura's long-legged, blonde half sister, Claire. Love in the afternoon: Though happily married to his adoring wife, Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day. His flirtations and fantasies remain harmless until Chloe, an audacious, unencumbered old flame, shows up at his office and presents the first genuine threat to his marriage. show lessTags
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The French filmmaker and writer Eric Rohmer began as an editor of the influential film journal Les Cahiers du Cinema. His first feature film was The Sign of the Lion (1959). Considered one of the important New Wave directors, Rohmer is best known for a group of films he calls Six Moral Tales. Each examines the dilemma of a man who is on the brink show more of committing himself to one woman but discovers he is greatly attracted to another woman; in each film, the man returns to his original choice, who is his moral ideal. Though these works contain a great deal of dialogue, they retain their visual allure. The final three in the group---My Night at Maud's (1968), Claire's Knee (1970), and Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)---won Rohmer an international reputation. His recent works include a new cycle of films based on each of the four seasons. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1962; 1963; 1969; 1967; 1970; 1972
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- La carrière de Suzanne (1963 | IMDb); La boulangère de Monceau (1963 | IMDb); Ma nuit chez Maud (1969 | IMDb); La collectionneuse (1967 | IMDb); Le genou de Claire (1970 | IMDb); L'amour l'après-midi (1972 | IMDb)
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