You say you want a revolution: a new film from Eric Rohmer, old man of the New Wave. (The Critics Film).(The Lady and the Duke) (movie review)
American Prospect, The, June, 2002 by Hoffman, Adina
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ERIC ROHMER'S FILMS ARE notoriously talky. In his Six Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs, and Tales of the Four Seasons cycles, the restlessly sexy, searching characters spend most of their time lounging on lawn chairs and engaging one another in meandering, often faltering, philosophical exchanges on topics from temptation and renunciation to the charms of lettuce.
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The eighteenth-century nobles in Rohmer's remarkable new movie, The Lady and the Duke, also converse almost nonstop. Though the sound of their more formal back-and-forth lacks the easy flow of his moderns' chatter, ...
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