1967 | France | Fiction

La collectionneuse (The Collector)

  • French English 86 mins
  • Director | Eric Rohmer
  • Writer | Patrick Bauchau, Haydée Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle, Éric Rohmer
  • Producer | Georges de Beauregard, Barbet Schroeder

STATUS: Released

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A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men. Eric Rohmer’s first color film, La collectionneuse pushes Six Moral Tales into new, darker realms while showcasing the clever, delectably ironic battle-of-the-sexes repartee (in a script written by Rohmer and the three main actors) and effortlessly luscious Nestor Almendros photography that would define the remainder of the series.

Desire Morality Seduction Hypocrisy Leisure
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The Criterion Collection
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