La Collectionneuse

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
La Collectionneuse
Collectionneuse 346 DVD.jpg
DVD cover
Directed by Éric Rohmer
Produced by Barbet Schroeder
Georges de Beauregard
Written by Patrick Bauchau
Haydée Politoff
Daniel Pommereulle
Éric Rohmer
Starring Patrick Bauchau
Haydée Politoff
Daniel Pommereulle
Alain Jouffroy
Music by Giorgio Gomelsky, The Blossom Toes
Cinematography Néstor Almendros
Editing by Jacquie Raynal
Release date(s) 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.

Contents

Plot [edit]

In Saint-Tropez a young man meets a beautiful girl who spends her time "collecting" boys.

Cast [edit]

Reception [edit]

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 [edit]

  1. ^ "Berlinale 1967: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-02-27. 

External links [edit]