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Eric Rohmer: An Interview
Q: Mr. Rohmer, with Chloé in the Afternoon you completed your project entitled Six Moral Tales. What was your goal in making this series?
ROHMER: | wanted to make films.
Q: But why six variations on the same theme?
ROHMER: | really cannot answer that. Because that’s the way things presented themselves to my mind. Why does one choose to do one thing over another? One doesn’t really know. But there might be another reason which is this one: | wanted to make films in total freedom, and | thought that it would be easier to get my own way — to get people to accept my own conception — if | presented an ensemble rather than isolated films. And in the end | think that | was proved right. | think that the fact that | called my films The Six Moral Tales interested the public; also the producers — or rather the distributors — were intimidated. They understood that it was not possible to ask me to modify the story of one of the films, because if | did that | would have to change the stories of all the others.
Q: Was there a particular audience you hoped to reach?
ROHMER: | had absolutely no idea of how many people that would consist of. If the audience had been fifty people that would have been fine. It so happened that as | was advancing, my films were reaching a larger public. But | didn’t want anything. The public came to me. | didn’t go looking for it.
Q: Though you call your films moral tales, conventional morality always takes a back seat to the human spirit which makes its own rules as it goes along. Do you have any comnen
The Films of Eric Rohmer Born, Nancy, France, 1920. 1950 Journal d’un scelerat 1951 Presentation ou Charlotte et son steak (stars Jean-Luc Godard) 12 mins. 1952 Les Petites Filles Modeéles 60 mins. (unfinished) 1954 Bérénice (based on Poe) 15 mins. 1956 La Sonate a Kreutzer (produced by Godard) 50 mins. 19571963 Joint Editor-in-Chief of Cahiers du Cinéma 1958 Veronique et son cancre 20 mins. 1959 Le Signe du lion 100 mins. 1962 La Boulangere de Monceau (Six Moral Tales, 1) 26 mins. 1963 La Carriere de Suzanne (Six Moral Tales, 2) 60 mins. 1964 Nadja a Paris 13 mins. 1965 Place de l’Etoile (episode in Paris Vu Par...) 16 mins. 1966 Une Etudiante d’aujourd’hui 13 mins. La Collectionneuse (Six Moral Tales, 4) 90 mins. 1968 Fermiére a Montfaucon 13 mins. 1969 Ma Nuit chez Maud (Six Moral Tales, 3) 110 mins. 1970 Le Genou de Claire (Six Moral Tales, 5) 105 mins. 1972 L’Amour, l’apres-midi (Six Moral Tales, 6) 98 mins. Plus, in the period 1964-66, a number of educational programs for French tv.
By Fred Barron
Fred Barron, former film critic and contributing arts editor for Boston's leading weekly newspaper, the Boston Phoenix, is currently working on a book of interviews with film directors.
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La Collectionneuse
Ma nuit chez Maude
Le Genou de Claire