Eric Rohmer

An excellent romantic tale from one of France’s great directors.

The first time I saw anything from a Godard film, I hated it. My first encounter with his work was perhaps appropriately abrupt and fragmentary. I was in my first year as a Film Studies major, in an introductory class about the French New Wave. Having grown up on a steady diet of Hollywood classics, …

“I made Mama think I was depressed – or maybe I was depressed.  I don’t know.  I felt like I was pretending to be depressed to avoid having the talk.  But maybe I was really depressed and just thought I was pretending.” After reading the film’s synopsis— “17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older …

This new column for Sound on Sight will feature Cahiers du Cinema critics-turned-filmmakers. However, it will not cover the infamous New Wave directors, but four other filmmakers who wrote for the journal and subsequently became directors. What follows is a brief history of the journal and its association with the four filmmakers that will be …