Eric Rohmer, 1920-2010

January 11th, 2010 admin

I had a revelation a few years ago: I'm the kind of person who, among the French New Wave directors, likes Eric Rohmer the best. I felt I had discovered something about myself, and could happily move on. (And then I had a secondary revelation: I'm the kind of person who defines myself by which French New Wave director I like best. Oh well.) News came over the Twitter feed that Rohmer died today at the age of 89. How do I justify a post about a film director on…

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