“Though not huge it has kept me going because my films are not very expensive to make.”
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Éric Rohmer
Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer, was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors to become established. He edited the influential film journal Cahiers du cinéma from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues—among them Jean-Luc Godard an…
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culture · French film director (1920–2010) · film director · journalist · writer · screenwriter · film critic · film editor · teacher · actor · novelist · theatre director · also Éric Rohmer, Eric Rohmer, Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, Maurice Henri Joseph Scherer, Rohmer
Born 21 March 1920 · Died 11 January 2010 · Q50764
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2026· 12 entries
“Even if I admire American cinema enormously I think that each nation should guard its cultural hegemony, otherwise things could become dangerous.”
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“the public that sustained my career the most was not so much the French but the Americans, My Night At Maud”
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“s death was not immediately clear. Bookmark with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version Print Sponsor TOP ENTERTAINMENT STORIES U2 reschedule US and Canada dates Cheryl”
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“I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry.”
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“thoughts rather than actions”
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“to portray in film what seemed most alien to the medium, to express feelings buried deep in our consciousness. That”
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“Cinema here will survive only because of television. Without such an alliance we won”
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“is the one who called the shots, not only by what she said, but by the way she”
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“the presence of the lake and the mountains is stronger in color than in black and white. It is a film I couldn”
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“I was determined to be inflexible and intractable, because if you persist in an idea it seems to me that in the end you do secure a following.”
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Financial Times: Élisabeth by Éric Rohmer — the novel that foretold the films
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2024· 2 entries
Deadline.com: Margaret Menegoz Dies: Michael Haneke, Éric Rohmer & Wim Wenders Producer Was 83
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scmp.com: The Hong Kong director who became Éric Rohmer’s editor: Mary Stephen on a life in film
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2022· 2 entries
Forbes: La MaMa To Present Object Collection Performance Based On Legendary Films Of Éric Rohmer
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The Film Stage: Éric Rohmer’s Theater Play Gets Adapted in Exclusive Trailer for Rita Azevedo Gomes’ Berlinale Premiere The Kagelstatt Trio
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2020· 1 entry
The Nation: Éric Rohmer’s Most Underrated Masterpiece
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2017· 1 entry
The Film Stage: ‘Lady Bird’ Cinematographer Sam Levy on Greta Gerwig, Frank Ocean, and Éric Rohmer
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2016· 1 entry
The New Yorker: Éric Rohmer’s Elusive Life, Revealed in a New Biography
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2015· 2 entries
The Boston Globe: The ‘Winter’ of Éric Rohmer
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The Guardian: London Short Film Festival, Eric Rohmer: this week’s film events
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2014· 1 entry
The Guardian: Eric Rohmer: everyday miracles of a New Wave master
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Eric Rohmer's influence on 2013 film, from Before Midnight to Frances Ha
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2010· 3 entries
Died 2010-01-11.
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“The Grave of Eric Rohmer (Maurice Scherer), Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris.”
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His obituary in The Daily Telegraph called him "the most durable filmmaker of the French New Wave", outlasting his peers and "still making movies the public wanted to see" late in his career
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2007· 2 entries
Rohmer's final film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, screened at the Venice Film Festival, where he spoke of retiring
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“s work. The New Wave tried to achieve a more improvised style free from the constraints of classical cinema. Rohmer said he wanted to look at”
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2001· 3 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2001).
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Rohmer's life's work was recognised when he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
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Rohmer received the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded David di Donatello Luchino Visconti (1990).
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1986· 3 entries
Won Golden Lion for The Green Ray (1986).
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His crew consisted only of a camera operator and a sound engineer
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“I was struck by the naturalness of television interviews. You can say that here, nature is perfect. If you look for it, you find it because people forget the cameras.”
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1984· 1 entry
And in English translation in 1989 as The Taste for Beauty
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1983· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear for Best Director for Pauline at the Beach (1983).
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1981· 1 entry
“what interests me is to show how someone”
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1980· 2 entries
Rohmer embarked on a second series of films: the "Comedies and Proverbs" (Comédies et Proverbes), with each film based on a proverb
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Rohmer made a film for television of his stage production of Kleist's play Catherine de Heilbronn, another work with a medieval setting
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1978· 1 entry
Rohmer made the Holy Grail legend film Perceval le Gallois, based on a 12th-century manuscript by Chrétien de Troyes
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film for The Marquise of O (1976).
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Awarded Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix for The Marquise of O (1976).
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1975· 1 entry
“I even wonder if I could work in the usual conditions of filmmaking.”
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1974· 1 entry
Rohmer completed a doctoral thesis on Murnau at the Université Paris I under the supervision of Étienne Souriau
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1971· 2 entries
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Claire's Knee (1971).
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And the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay for My Night at Maud's (1970).
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Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Claire's Knee (1970).
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1967· 1 entry
Earned Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for La Collectionneuse (1967).
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1964· 1 entry
Rohmer made the 13-minute short film Nadja à Paris with cinematographer Nestor Almendros
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1963· 1 entry
Les Films du Losange produced the New Wave omnibus film Six in Paris, of which Rohmer's short "Place de l'Etoile" was the centerpiece
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1962· 1 entry
Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder co-founded the production company Les Films du Losange (they were later joined by Pierre Coltrell in the late 1960s)
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1958· 1 entry
Rohmer made Véronique et son cancre, a 20-minute short produced by Chabrol
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1957· 2 entries
Rohmer married Thérèse Barbet
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Rohmer and Chabrol wrote Hitchcock (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957), the earliest book-length study of Alfred Hitchcock
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1956· 1 entry
Rohmer directed, wrote, edited and starred in La Sonate à Kreutzer, a 50-minute film produced by Godard
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1955· 1 entry
So that his family would not find out that he was involved in the film world, as they would have disapproved
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1954· 1 entry
Rohmer made and acted in Bérénice, a 15-minute short based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe
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1952· 1 entry
Rohmer began collaborating with Pierre Guilbaud on a one-hour short feature, Les Petites Filles modèles, but the film was never finished
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1951· 1 entry
Rohmer joined the staff of André Bazin's newly founded film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, of which he became the editor in 1956
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1950· 2 entries
Co-founded the film magazine La Gazette du Cinéma with Rivette and Godard, but it was short-lived
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Rohmer made his first 16mm short film, Journal d'un scélérat
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1946· 1 entry
Published a novel, Elisabeth (AKA Les Vacances) under the pen name Gilbert Cordier
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1942· 1 entry
Studied at University of Clermont-Ferrand (1896-1976) (1941–1942).
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1940· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Henri-IV (1937–1940).
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1937· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée Edmond Perrier (1937).
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-03-21.
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