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Antoine de Baecque is a professor of the history of cinema at the University of Nanterre. He has published biographies of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard and was editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema. Noel Herpe is a senior lecturer at the Universite de Paris VIII. He has published works on Rene Clair and Sacha Guitry, as well as a book of interviews with Eric Rohmer about his text Le Celluloid et le Marbre.
Antoine de Baecque and No l Herpe achieve in this scrupulously researched volume the paradoxical feat of delivering the definitive biography of a pseudonymous subject. Eric Rohmer will interest film historians, theorists of film, enthusiasts of French cinema, and film directors both aspiring and established, for whom Rohmer's low-budget modus operandi remains one of the miracles of modern film production. This, the first biography of Rohmer (n Maurice Sch rer), is likely also to be the last. -- Derek Schilling, Johns Hopkins University Rohmer was sensitive, very well educated, and at home with literature, music, painting and theater; the biography shows a happy life lived in such culture. It shows how this flows easily into his films, how they operate as experiments in feeling and perception. The book makes one hungry to see them all over again. -- Dudley Andrew, Yale University One of the most distinguished filmmakers of the French new wave... [de Baecque and Herpe] pull off the high-wire act of appealing to both film scholars and lay readers with a combination of comprehensive research and engaging storytelling. The book will foster a renewed appreciation of a complex artist and the remarkable body of work he left behind. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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