A Repeat Screening of “Rohmer in Paris”
Sun 19 Apr 2015, 7.30 pm
Blossom Art House
From the organizer:
Incredible. A REPEAT SCREENING OF ROHMER IN PARIS due to the fact that it was PACKED at the first screening at Goethe Institut the other evening (we’re sorry many of you couldn’t come in) !
Many thanks to Blossom Art House for hosting this.
Plus Q&A session with Richard Misek after the screening, led by Hanoi DocLab
Chapter III of The City Limits – a series of city films curated by The Onion Cellar
FREE ENTRY [we kindly suggest a donation for the filmmaker]
A film by Richard Misek – using footage from the films of Eric Rohmer
2014, 66 minutes
English, with subtitles in Vietnamese
[youtube width=”700″ height=”393″]https://youtu.be/0FMC5AlyBm0[/youtube]
So you are a dreamy young‘un, a college student, or perhaps (un)lucky enough to have a 9-5 somewhere. You travel through the city everyday, passing crossroads and streetlamps and buildings, for work, for silly gatherings with friends. The same route everyday, there and back. The familiar strangers’ faces, the familiar friendly faces.
On surface, the days repeat themselves, more or less, and yet the possibilities are endless. Little rendezvous of odds-and-ends conversations, fleeting encounters with other young‘uns of the city that make hearts skip… You are like them all. You don’t exactly have any great ideas about life, you don’t rescue anyone. Would a director ever care to make films about you and your little universe?
Here comes Eric Rohmer.
Rohmer’s Nouvelle Vague films – more often than not set in Paris – are charming in their own unassuming ways, with their light tender stories, with a little romance, a little humour – just like real life.
Life imitating art: like in many classic Rohmer films, it all began with a chance encounter. And before he knew it Richard Misek became so infatuated with Eric Rohmer and his films that he went on to watch all of them, not once, not twice… But simply watching them proved not enough: he went on to analyse every glance the characters exchange, every route they follow, all the crushes happening on the pavements, all the coincidences, all the tricks life plays; he cataloged doors, stairways, cafés, metro stations, benches, tree-lined boulevards, of Paris.
This process eventually manifested into ROHMER IN PARIS, an uncategoriseable piece of moving-image painstakingly assembled using clips from various Rohmer films set in Paris, guiding audiences through this maze of a city – the beautiful Paris of a lost golden age. And perhaps, ROHMER IN PARIS will take you to the heart of the Nouvelle Vague that changed cinema forever.
[words by Lê Hà My, additional words by Oskar M]
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