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Eric Rohmer, one of the last of the directors of the French New Wave, has died. Like his contemporaries, he started his film career as a critic at the magazine Cahiers du Cinema, and after a few shorts made his first feature with Le signe du lion. My Night at Maud's was his first international hit, long after the other New Wave directors had made their initial impact, and set out his style as that of the "talk piece" where his characters, often young and middle class, conversed at great length in a way that exposed various truths about life as Rohmer saw them. His works were often grouped into cycles, and included Claire's Knee, Pauline at the Beach, The Green Ray and his last, made when he was in his late eighties, The Romance of Astree and Celadon. |
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