The bakery girl of monceau started my love affair with rohmer, but i was too young to pick up on the deeper strains of rohmers intentions. Watch the bakery girl of monceau full movie in hd visit early new wave effort from rohmer which was the first of his. The structure of the film is about a man who sees and falls in love with a woman he passes by in the street, but he doesnt know how to talk to her. In the bakery girl of monceau, the series most heavily narrated film, what little spoken dialogue there is is overdubbedthe unnamed main character played by barbet schroeder almost literally tells the film. Eventually he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
A law student regularly visits a paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee. Girl at the monceau bakerysuzannes career dvd, 2000 for. Here rohmers technique is presented in its simplest form. On dvd, bluray, with new, restored 4k digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the bluray. The bakery girl of monceau 1963 directed by eric rohmer. The bakery girl of monceau s is a film directed by eric rohmer with barbet schroeder, michele girardon, claudine soubrier, michel mardore, year. Jackie raynal, barbet schroeder, georges derocles, eric rohmer.
The bakery girl of monceau eric rohmer france, 1963 simple, delicate, and jazzy, the first of the moral tales shows the stirrings of what would become the eric rohmer style. The bakery girl of monceau is a fantastic short film from eric rohmer. When he finally speaks to her, she disappears and he begins a daily. The two earliest moral tales the bakery girl of monceau 1963 and suzannes career 1963 display an appreciation for male cruelty and female passiveaggression that seems. Assignments will likely include homework, a film journal, two or three essay exams, and perhaps the option to substitute a paper for one exam. Released 1963, the bakery girl of monceau stars barbet schroeder, michele girardon the movie has a runtime of about 26 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic, which put. Before sunrise truly deserves to be remembered among the best and most romantic. The complete series 20 dvd box set new free shipping.
What the character tells us is a perspective on the events that. When the bakery girl finally agrees to a date, the original woman reappears, complete. Simple, delicate, and jazzy, the first of the moral tales shows the stirrings of what would become the eric rohmer. I have the book of short stories it comes with the criterion boxset of the moral tales, which i certainly have to read. His 1963 film the bakery girl of monceau, the first entry in the series, exemplifies this approach in a compact twentythree minutes. The film society has announced eric rohmers moral tales, september 1629. A nice friend of bakers, the french porn director pierre moro understood bakers need to have fun, and so he gave them a porn movie revolving around a bakery and the guy in charge. The bakery girl of monceau is the first film in eric rohmers great six moral tales film series. His works all end decisively with some new insight, for those of us forever under his spell, to savor. Overview of bakery girl of monceau, the, 1963, directed by eric rohmer, with claudine soubrier, michele girardon, barbet schroeder, at turner classic movies.
A love triangle between a guy and two girls, who are best friends but the complete opposite of one another. The girl at the monceau bakery finds a young man falling in love with an unattainable woman while sublimating his desires in the company of a bakery clerk. My intent was to film not raw, unvarnished events but rather the account of them as given by one of the characters, eric rohmer wrote in the. Marisa tomei, who costars as frankies friend ilene, a moviebusiness hair stylist, brings a quiet ferocity to sudden new reckonings. St phane audran, patrick bauchau, jeanlouis trintignant, fran oise fabian, jeanclaude brialy, bernard verley, daniel ceccaldi, bruno ganz, andre dussollier, mathieu carri re, eric. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days. Film has not been released on that format or series. Watch the bakery girl of monceau full movie in hd visit movie 899 early new wave effort from rohmer which was the first of. Not because they should be seen in order but more or less due to the fact that the film is under thirty minutes. The first of eric rohmers six moral tales, the girl at the bakery monceau is probably what newcomers to. After the indifferent response to his first feature le signe du lion 1959, eric rohmer embarked on an ambitious plan to make six films all based around a common theme and a similar plot. Its dull, its predictable, its a complete embarrassment of a movie.
The rigid principles of a devout catholic man are challenged during a onenight stay with maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality. Eric rohmer collection 22disc box set the sign of leo the bakery girl of monceau suzannes career the collector my night at mauds cla nonusa format, bluray, reg. The bakery girl of monceau 1963 full movie download full. The narrator in this case is an unnamed young man barbet schroeder reflecting on his days as a law student in paris, telling a story from his past in voiceover while the action plays out onscreen. The 10 most romantic movies of all time taste of cinema. They become friends and ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister muriel, for whom she intends claude. The bakery girl of monceau 1963 the criterion collection.
Maisel, and big night, will join us as our keynote guest. Early new wave effort from rohmer which was the first of his six moral tales. The bakery girl of monceau or the girl at the monceau bakery is a 1963 film by eric rohmer. A law student played by producer and future director barbet schroeder with a roving eye and a large appetite stuffs himself with sugary. The bakery girl of monceau 1963 a college student barbet schroeder searches for an attractive girl. Delicate and jazzy, the bakery girl of monceau, the first entry in the six moral tales. Starring barbet schroeder, claudine soubrier, and michele girardon.
Delicate and jazzy, the bakery girl of monceau, the first entry in the six moral tales series, evinces stirrings of what would become the eric rohmer style. Merida is the most unlikable pixar protagonist and disney princess by far, she never gets any comeuppance for turning her mother into a bear. At the beginning of the 20th century, claude roc, a young middleclass frenchman meets in paris ann brown, a young englishwoman. My fox lorber copy of the bakery girl of monceau, which cost a lot less than. The film is the first part of a series of films relating to morality entitled six moral tales as it plays into a man deciding about what to do as he is caught between two women. With barbet schroeder, claudine soubrier, michele girardon, fred junck. Many would easily fall into staged fictional shots with music, etc my favorite part was when he was waiting for sylvie outside the bakery and it took her too long to show up again. Wci film festival and lecture series university at. Coffret eric rohmer, lintegrale rohmer, france, potemkine bluray last month, french home video distributor potemkine in collaboration with everyones favorite fashion designerpatron of cinema, agnes b. A college student barbet schroeder searches for an attractive girl. The bakery girl of monceau eric rhomer comes alive. The film was the first of rohmers six moral tales contes moraux, which consisted of two shorts and four feature films. Bakery girl of monceau rohmer violence, hurt, cruelty, to animals in films, movies.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, hot docs canadian international documentary festival showcases over 200 of the finest documentaries. The documentarylike cinematography was a brave decision to make this film. A law student played by producer and future director barbet schroeder with a roving eye and a large appetite stuffs himself full of sugar cookies and pastries daily. Work at a bakery is not easy, and bakers have a right to some quiet moments every once in a while. For 50 years, film at lincoln center has been dedicated to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema and enriching film culture.
Criterions may slate, plus parasite coming from criterion. Our young protagonist must then decide whether to go through with the date, or turn his attentions. A law student played by producer and future director barbet schroeder with a roving eye and a large appetite stuffs himself with sugary pastries. The criterion collections original dvd box set for eric rohmers six moral tales presents the films over six discs, each film getting its own disc. When the bakery girl finally agrees to a date, the original woman reappears, complete with an explanation of why shed been missing the weeks before. The bakery girl of monceau in 1962, after his first feature tanked, eric rohmer made this smallscale 16mm. New restorations of eric rohmers six moral tales this. The rare hollywood film of the era to deal seriously with issues of female artistic struggle and selfactualization, arzners film is a rich, fascinating statement from an auteur decades ahead of her time. Below is my continuation of last weeks post concerning the most essential home video releases of 20. Outside of suzannes career, which is presented on a singlelayer disc, the films. Love in the afternoon 1972 chlo in the afternoon 1972, originally titled lamour laprsmidi or love in the afternoon, is the last of the six moral tales that eric rohmer started to make in 1963, when he launched the series with the bakery girl of monceau and suzannes career, short films that paved the way for the four featurelength installments. The criterion collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling important classic and contemporary films in editions that offer the highest technical quality and awardwinning. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery.