USA: ACTRESS CLARA BELLAR TALKS ABOUT HER ROLE IN DIRECTOR ERIC ROHMER'S NEW FILM 'RENDEZVOUS IN PARIS'

Record ID: 386810

  • Title: USA: ACTRESS CLARA BELLAR TALKS ABOUT HER ROLE IN DIRECTOR ERIC ROHMER'S NEW FILM 'RENDEZVOUS IN PARIS'
  • Date: 30th August 1996
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA (RTV ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE FRENCH) BELLAR SAYS ROHMER WANTED TO DO SMALL VIGNETTES AND THE FIRST STORY GAVE HIM THE IDEA OF DOING THE WHOLE THING ON RENDEZVOUS
  • Embargoed: 14th September 1996 13:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA7MTYL1K9RFJE37IFUTWVP7XPE
  • Story Text: Master French director Eric Rohmer is no novice to film-making and nor is he, it seems, to the follies of the human heart. Rohmer has made love his own personal cinematic territory, one he continues to explore with wry delight.

    In his new movie "Rendezvous In Paris" he presents three playful and elegant vignettes based around lovers' meetings or 'rendezvous'.

    Actress Clara Bellar stars in the first piece, "The Seven O'Clock Rendezvous", playing a young woman who discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her. By coincidence she meets and makes friends with her rival and by another coincidence, she then runs into the boyfriend in a cafe where she has arranged a 'rendezvous' with another man. In Los Angeles to publicise the film, she explained how Rohmer "shows that coincidences can change relations more than feelings." When he started working on the film, Rohmer was not sure what it would be about, but she said after " we wrote the first story together, he decided to make dates or 'rendezvous' the theme of the movie".

    The second story, "The Benches of Paris", is played out in the parks of Paris. It is the story of a young woman, played by Aurore Rauscher, who wants to leave her fiance and arranges meetings with a young professor who she hopes willhelp her make the move. But things take an ironic turn when she finally arranges a week-end rendezvous with the professor.

    In the third and final piece, "Mother and Child" a young painter takes his Swedish date to the Picasso Museum. There another young woman catches his eye. He makes his excuses, abandons the first girlfriend and pursues his new love interest through the streets of Paris until he finallypersuades her to visit his studio.

    Eric Rohmer's reputation as film-maker is based on his gentle yet worldly depiction of 'la comedie humaine'. He has returned to its eternal themes repeatedly throughout his career, establishing a reputation as an actors' director. Rohmer's camera is always a neutral vehicle, there to frame what is going on between his characters as they fall in and out of love.

    In the late 1950's he worked as editor-in-chief on the French New Wave journal, "Cahiers du Cinema," whose contributors included Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol. He first made his mark as director in 1969 with "My Night at Maud's". Then followed the acclaimed "Claire's Knee" (1970) and "Chloe in the Afternoon" (1972). He established his international reputation with "Pauline at the Beach" (1982) which was part of a series entitled "Comedies and Proverbs." "Rendezvous in Paris" is the director's twenty-seventh feature film.
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