Sunday, September 09, 2007


Les Amours D' Astree et de Celadon (2007, Eric Rohmer) 72
This joins Rohmer's other adaptation films: The Lady and the Duke, Perceval le Gallois and The Marquise of O; and like those films, this one pays close and respectful attention to the style, period and location of the original works. Rohmer tells us as much in the opening text scroll which tells us that Rohmer's experiment is to tell the story as it would be imagined by someone reading the text in the 17th century, which creates a strange temporal dislocation to the charming and humorous story, which is not far from Rohmer's previous morality tales in terms of Celadon's dilemma. I think this is a minor Rohmer work but it is also fascinatingly rich and warmly entertaining, we should all be so lucky to have minor works as major as this.

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