![]() She believes in coincidence-but doesn't believe it is coincidence. Having met the love of her life and lost track of him, she expects him to return. Exteriors are to distract his male characters, like the hero of ''Claire's Knee'' (1970), who sets a labyrinthine plot into motion simply to supply himself with a reason to touch the knee of Claire.įelicie, the heroine of Rohmer's ''A Tale of Winter'' (1992), is convinced that life will fall into line with her great romantic purpose. He admires physical beauty, but never makes it the point he chooses actresses who are smart and bright-eyed, and focuses on their personalities rather than their exteriors. ![]() He loves the way women look and move and talk, and the way they evaluate men. He is concerned with the search for love and pattern in life. His earlier films were about men and women the later ones are about women and men, or women and women. ![]() ![]() Yet, also like Ozu, his films seem individual and fresh and never seem to repeat themselves both directors focus on people rather than plots, and know that every person is a startling original while most plots are more or less the same. Like the Japanese master Ozu, with whom he is sometimes compared, he is said to make the same film every time. A Rohmer film is a flavor that, once tasted, cannot be mistaken. ![]()
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