Éric Rohmer (born Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, 4 April 1920, Tulle, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. A key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.
Schérer fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series.
Rohmer was the last of the Fren...
more
Éric Rohmer (born Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, 4 April 1920, Tulle, France) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. A key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma.
Schérer fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series.
Rohmer was the last of the French New Wave directors to become established. He worked as the editor of the Cahiers du cinéma periodical from 1957 to 1963, while most of his Cahiers colleagues, among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, were beginning their careers and gaining international attention. René Schérer, philosopher, is his brother and René Monzat, a journalist is his son.
He completed his first feature, Le signe du lion in 1959 to little notice. Rohmer's career began to gain momentum with his cycle of films Six Moral Tales. The first, La boulangère de...
less
