Jean-Louis Livi – MRQE

Claude M Loves the Cinema

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The late French helmer Claude Miller, whose swan song, “Therese Desqueyroux,” closed the recent Cannes fest, reminisces about his career, in TV-style (and length) docu “Claude M Loves the Cinema.” Writer-director Emmanuel Barnault lets a handful of collaborators and friends deliver unconnected soundbites about Miller, who worked for Bresson, Godard and Truffaut before moving to directing. But the freewheeling recollections of the maestro himself, in one of his last extensive interviews, are the pic’s strongest suit.

Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thanks to a series of unpublished interviews, recorded shortly before his death, director Claude Sautet gives us a fascinating lesson in cinema. Through his thirteen films, he tells about his career and his work as a director.

L’amour l’après-midi

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The last of Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma.