Six Moral Tales [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] [3 Discs]

Criterion Collection (3Pc)

Overview

The multifaceted, deeply personal work of Eric Rohmer has had an effect on cinema unlike any other. One of the founding critics of the history-making Cahiers du cinéma, Rohmer began translating his written manifestos to film in the (1960s, standing apart from his New Wave contemporaries with his patented brand of gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes. This near genre unto itself was established with the audacious and wildly influential series Six Moral Tales. A succession of encounters between fragile men and the women who tempt them, Six Moral Tales unleashed on the film world a new voice, one that was at once sexy, philosophical, modern, daring, nonjudgmental, and liberating. Films in this set: The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) Suzanne's Career (1963) My Night at Maud's (1969) La collectionneuse (1967) Claire's Knee (1970) Love in the Afternoon (1972)

Product Details

Release Date:	05/05/2020
UPC:	0715515240116
Original Release:	1963
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Color]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	7:58:00
Sales rank:	386

Special Features

New 2K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks; Conversation between Director Eric Rohmer and filmmaker Barbet Schroeder from 2006; Four short films by Rohmer-Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (shot in 1951 and completed in 1961); Véronique and Her Dunce (1958); Nadja in Paris (1964); A Modern Coed (1966)-and one on which he advised, The Curve (1999); "On Pascal," a 1965 episode of the educational TV series En profil dans le texte directed by Rohmer, on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, the subject of debate in My Night at Maud's ; Archival interviews with Rohmer; actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, and Jean-Louis Trintignant; film critic Jean Douchet; and Producer Pierre Cottrell; Video afterward from 2006 by filmmaker and playwright Neil LaBute; Trailers; Plus: A booklet featuring essays by critics Geoff Andrew, Ginette Vincendeau, Phillip Lopate, Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, and Armond White; excerpts from Cinematographer Nestor Alemendros's 1984 autobiography; and Rohmer's landmark 1948 essay "For a Talking Cinema"; along with an English translation of Moral Tales, the book of stories by Rohmer on which the films are based