EIGHT WHITE NIGHTS By André Aciman 360 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26 A young woman introduces herself to a young man at a lavish party on Christmas Eve on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He is instantly smitten. The woman, Clara, is beautiful, forward, witty, adept at wordplay, often nasty. She has a transcendent singing voice. The narrator,...
TO those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films. ''My Night at Maud's,'' ''Claire's Knee,'' ''Chloe in the Afternoon'' are grafted onto my life. Something happened between me and these films at the Thalia, at...
Among the films Eric Rohmer directed in the ninth and last decade of his life were ''The Lady and the Duke,'' set in the embattled aristocracy of 18th-century France, and ''The Romance of Astrea and Celadon,'' based on a 17th-century French literary pastoral. These were not Mr. Rohmer's only forays into the past -- in the mid-'70s he made...
Éric Rohmer (20. marts 1920-11. januar 2010), født Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, var en fransk filminstruktør, som er en vigtig figur i den nye bølge. Rohmer var den første redaktør af Cahiers du Cinema. I 1965 lavede han en dokumentar om Carl Theodor Dreyer for fransk TV.
Hans bror René Schérer er filosof.