
claire's knee
With
Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, Fabrice Luchini
Synopsis
A few weeks before his wedding, Jérôme spends his vacation beside Annecy Lake where he must organise the sale of a family villa. By chance, he runs into Aurora, an old friend from Rumania, who is staying at the house of a mutual acquaintance. Jérôme pays her a visit. Laura, the acquaintance’s strong-minded daughter, is rather attracted to the newcomer. This budding romance provides Aurora, who is a writer, with the subject of her next novel. Jérôme gets caught up in the game and starts seeing Laura regularly. Then Claire, Laura’s elder half sister, arrives on the scene and shakes him up in yet another way. Laura subsequently abandons him for a younger man, and Jérôme’s attraction to Claire becomes an obsession.
Awards
- Prix Louis-Delluc 1971
- Prix de la critique américaine 1971
Press
Une oeuvre d’une richesse et d’une densité exceptionnelles, qui forcent l’admiration
Le JDD L’analyse est fine et profonde
Femmes d’aujourd’hui Le cinéma de Eric Rohmer est la perfection
Ciné-monde Un très grand film
L’Humanité Un film enchanteur
Le monde Une émotion fine et légère, une amusante subtilité
Le Figaro L’art d’Eric Rohmer est le plus fin qui soit au monde
Le nouvel observateur
Credits
- Screenplay
- Eric Rohmer
- Cinematography
- Nestor Almendros
- Editing
- Cécile Decugis
- Sound
- Jean-Pierre Ruh
- Produced by
- Les Films du Losange
- French distribution
- Les Films du Losange
- International sales
- Les Films du Losange
Technical details
- Year
- 1970
- Runtime
- 1h45
- Genre
- fiction
- Nationalities
- France
- Sound format
- Mono
- Visa
- 37233
