Eric Rohmer's six moral tales
(Blu-ray)

Three-Blu-ray special edition 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 afterword from 2006 by filmmaker and critics Geoff Andrew, Ginette Vincendeau, Phillip Lopate, Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, and Armond White; excerpts from cinematographer Nestor Almendros's 1984 autobiography; and Rohmer's landmark 1948 essay "For a Talking Cinema"; along with an English translation of Six Moral Tales, the book of stories by Rohmer on which the films are based.

The bakery girl of Monceau (1963) : Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon.

Suzanne's career: Catherine Sée, Philippe Beuzen, Christian Charrière, Diane Wilkinson.

My night at Maud's: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault.

La collectionneuse: Haydée Politoff, Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle.

Claire's knee: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Michèle Montel, Gérard Falconetti, Fabrice Luchini.

Love in the afternoon: Bernard Verley, Zouzou, Françoise Verley, Daniel Ceccaldi.

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 examines the relationship between two friends when they both become interested in the same woman.

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 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 thier idyll is distrubed 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.

Blu-ray; mono; region A; 1.37:1 full frame; B&W; color; requires Blu-ray player.

In French with English subtitles.

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