La Collectionneuse
| La Collectionneuse | |
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| Directed by | Éric Rohmer |
| Written by | Patrick Bauchau Haydée Politoff Daniel Pommereulle Éric Rohmer |
| Produced by | Barbet Schroeder Georges de Beauregard |
| Starring | Patrick Bauchau Haydée Politoff Daniel Pommereulle Alain Jouffroy |
| Cinematography | Néstor Almendros |
| Edited by | Jacquie Raynal |
| Music by | Giorgio Gomelsky, The Blossom Toes |
Release date | March 2, 1967 (France) |
Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
La Collectionneuse (The Collector) is a 1967 film by Éric Rohmer. It is the fourth movie in the series of the Six Moral Tales. In 2001 the Guardian critic Philip Norman included it his list of 100 top movies of the 20th century. In his 2003 film The Five Obstructions, Danish director Jørgen Leth describes La Collectionneuse as his favourite work by Rohmer, and he hired one of its stars, Patrick Bauchau, to appear in The Five Obstructions. La Collectionneuse won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
Seymour Hertzberg who plays Sam, an American art collector, is actually Eugene Archer, a former New York Times film reviewer.
The film is lit by the late Néstor Almendros, who also appears in the film. The director and writer Donald Cammell also has an uncredited role in the film.
Plot
In Saint-Tropez a young man meets a beautiful girl who spends her time "collecting" boys.
Cast
- Patrick Bauchau - Adrien
- Haydée Politoff - Haydee
- Daniel Pommereulle - Daniel
- Alain Jouffroy - Writer
- Mijanou Bardot - Carole (as Mijanou)
- Annik Morice - Amie de Carole
- Dennis Berry - Charlie
- Seymour Hertzberg
- Néstor Almendros
- Patrice De Bailliencourt - Homme dans l'auto
- László Benkö
- Anne Dubot
Reception
The film currently holds an 89% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. On May 14ᵗʰ, 2012 Roger Ebert added La Collectionneuse to his list of "Great Movies".
References
- ^ "Berlinale 1967: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
External links
- La Collectionneuse at IMDb
- La Collectionneuse at Rotten Tomatoes
- La Collectionneuse at AllMovie
- Criterion Collection essay by Phillip Lopate
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