The director of twenty-five films; including My Night at Maudrsquo;s (1969); which was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award; and the editor in chief of Cahiers du cineacute;ma from 1957 to 1963; Eacute;ric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched; made; and thought about cinema for decades. Such brilliance does not develop in a vacuum; and Rohmer cultivated a fascinating network of friends; colleagues; and industry contacts that kept his outlook sharp and propelled his work forward. Despite his privacy; he cared deeply about politics; religion; culture; and fostering a public appreciation of the medium he loved.This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmerrsquo;s public achievements and lesser known interests and relations. The filmmaker kept in close communication with his contemporaries and competitors: Franccedil;ois Truffaut; Jean-Luc Godard; Claude Chabrol; and Jacques Rivette. He held a paradoxical fascination with royalist politics; the fate of the environment; Catholicism; classical music; and the French nightclub scene; and his films were regularly featured at New York and Los Angeles film festivals. Despite an austere approach to life; Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art; culture; and intellectual debate captured vividly in this definitive volume.
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