“Eric Rohmer, the French critic and filmmaker who was one of the founding figures of the internationally influential movement that became known as the French New Wave, and the director of more than 50 films for theaters and television, including the Oscar-nominated ’My Night at Maud’s‘ (1969), died on Monday. He was 89. . . . [...]
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R.I.P. – Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)
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