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La Collectionneuse (Criterion Collection)

 

  Written and Directed by Eric Rohmer

France 1967 / Drama  / Comedy / 87 min / Color /  Monaural / Aspect Ratio of 1.33:1 / NTSC /  In French with Optional English Subtitles

Haydee Politoff, Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle, Mijanou Bardot, Eugene Archer

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. Rohmer’s first color film, La collectionneuse pushes the Moral Tales into new, darker realms. Yet it is also a grand showcase for the clever and delectably ironic battle-of-the-sexes repartee (in a witty script written by Rohmer and the three main actors) and luscious, effortless Néstor Almendros photography that would define the remainder of the series.

 

 
       

Bonus Features:

New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
Rohmer’s short film A Modern Coed (1966)
A 1977 episode of the TVOntario program Parlons cinema, featuring an interview with Rohmer on La collectionneuse
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation