Directed by:
Eric RohmerScreenplay:
Eric RohmerCinematography:
Néstor AlmendrosVOD (2)
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“Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura’s long-legged, blonde stepsister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jerôme’s moral crisis and creates both one of French cinema’s most enduring moments and what has become the iconic image of Rohmer’s Moral Tales. (Janus Films)
(more)Cast
Jean-Claude Brialy
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Holy Year (1976)
Béatrice Romand
Algeria
Best movies:
L'Allée du roi (1996) (series)
The Green Ray (1986)
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Laurence de Monaghan
Best movies:
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Va voir maman, papa travaille (1978)
Claire's Knee (1970)
Fabrice Luchini
France
Best movies:
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Aurora Cornu
Romania
Best movies:
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Claire's Knee (1970)