France, 1984. Videos. Eager to lead the life of an independent socialite in the city, Louise arranges to move back into her Paris apartment during the week. Louise’s life seems to be a permanent, hyper-elegant performance, as witness the way she’s constantly positioning herself, head cocked just so against walls and in doorways. 1984. Full Moon in Paris (French: Les nuits de la pleine lune) is a 1984 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. Romance, Drama. Special Moon Events in 2021. You might think of Rohmer as a quintessential Sixties and early-Seventies director because of his Moral Tales series, but for me he embodies French cinema in the Eighties. Synopsis. It’s not only because, married as he is, he comes on to Louise in his apartment, with his daughter and her babysitter on the premises—it’s also because he’s so unpleasantly high-handed with that babysitter. To join, his poor voice with angels. The 4th of Eric Rohmer's six-part "Comedies & Proverbs" series. Rendez Vous - La Plage. However, Octave (whose name inescapably evokes the morally tainted social gadfly that Jean Renoir played in The Rules of the Game) is more than ridiculous. This article related to a French film of the 1980s is a stub. Running time: 101 min. He who has two houses loses his mind.")[2]. Meanwhile, Louise keeps her options open by retaining her Paris apartment as a pied à terre. Louise’s chic furnishings reminded me of the John Cooper Clarke lines—“Just a tiger rug and a telephone / Say a postwar glamour girl’s never alone”—except here it’s an angular neon lamp and a grey telephone to match the walls. Louise (Pascale Ogier), a restless designer bored with sleepy suburban life outside of Paris, lives with her lover, Remy (Tcheky Karyo), a stable architect happy with a calm home life and a long-term relationship. Before you have time to hear. Things come to a head when Louise finally hooks up with sax player Bastien, played by Christian Vadim in a sleeveless T-shirt and a Billy Idol sneer. Other design touches include the neo-classical pillar in Louise’s apartment, and novelty furnishings like the trompe l’oeil sofa at her workplace (at first, I thought it was held together by masking tape, then realized it was painted to resemble the table in front of it, complete with vase of flowers—oh, that crazy design decade). 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Once you select Rent you'll have 14 days to start watching the movie and 48 hours to finish it. ‘Let’s Go To Work’ – Electro … Louise is played—or since the fit is so close, perhaps it’s better to say embodied—by the late Pascale Ogier, who was 25 when she made the film. So Full Moon in Paris is deeply poignant to watch again, especially, if like me, you had it bad for Ogier at the time. One of Eric Rohmer's most renowned films, FULL MOON IN PARIS was originally released in 1984 to universal acclaim. Buy $9.99. And it’s there in the décor: grey walls, Mondrian prints, “witty” lamps (heroine Louise is a trendy creative who makes her own lights, presumably because she’s unable to afford Memphis creations). So high, that I know it flies to you. April 16, 2015. [1], Full Moon in Paris was Rohmer's fourth installment in his Comedies and Proverbs series. Rent $3.99. Full Moon in Paris is one of the rare Rohmer films to feature a fully-fledged star—by contrast to “Comedies and Proverbs’ actresses like Béatrice Romand and Marie Rivière, who seem to have wandered in off the street, and prove absolutely riveting and memorable. ‘C’est Si Bon’ – Eartha Kitt. At first glance the quintessential Rohmer obsessive central character Louise (Pascale Ogier) is a self-absorbed, spoiled, manipulative, high maintenance royal pain in the backside and by the time the narrative finally unravels we may roundly applaud the come-uppance she so richly deserves. The horrors of slavery in America return in Antebellum, an audacious thriller that revives thorny questions of how to portray the past, Susan Sontag, Sweden, 1969; Kino Lorber, DVD & Blu-Ray, Framing the conversation: a quartet of critics and filmmakers reflect on trans film images, It's Academic: A.S. 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