Homage to Eric Rohmer

Eric Rohmer, the eldest among his Nouvelle Vague fellow travelers Godard, Rivette, Chabrol, and Truffaut, had already written a novel and worked as a teacher and critic before he started making films. Between 1950 and 2007, he shot more than 50 films. Most can easily be identified as Rohmer movies, his style is unmistakable. All of his films are experimental set-ups, so to speak, dealing with love on the stage of everyday life, the role of chance and morality, filigree relationships, the virtuoso play with the arithmetics of personal relations – most of which is addressed via language. The dialogs are a decisive element of the scenery, the spoken word plays a vital role: Thoughts on emotions, plans of life, disappointments, and longings are always fully formulated. Rohmer's films are strictly composed, yet they are very light, intellectual and sensuous, artistically stylized and imbued with reality. And always staged with a certain distance, observing, curious to find things out about the characters and the way they act.