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Éric Rohmer: A Biography (Preview)
by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe. Translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. 637 pp., illus.Rohmer biography
Hardcover: $40.00.
Reviewed by Chris Fujiwara
The great theme of this monumental book is the cunning collusion between cinema and reality that manifests itself in a rigorous and exemplary way throughout Éric Rohmer’s work.
A collusion that the authors, Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, often describe as a “trap.” For his La Collectionneuse, instead of a conventional scenario, Rohmer “constructed a trap, a rather closely woven dramatic canvas” within which the main characters could emerge.
To put her at ease and make her “forget the presence of cinema,” Rohmer “set a clever trap” for young Laurence de Monaghan, the Claire of Claire’s Knee. Bernard Verley, who played the hero of Chloe in the Afternoon, is quoted describing Rohmer as “someone whose fiction is so strong that it coincides with rea