La Collectionneuse
- Patrick Bauchau: Adrien
- Haydée Politoff Haydée
- Daniel Pommereulle: Daniel
- Mijanou Bardot Carole
- Seymour Hertzberg: Sam
The collector is the resulting 1967 third feature film from the series Six moral tales of Eric Rohmer (the fourth part in the order of the narratives ). A man meets a young girl and decides not to get involved with her , giving him more and more difficult.
Action
The art dealer Adrien plans to spend the summer with his friend Daniel in a villa on the Mediterranean, which has left them a mutual friend. Soon quartered there a young Haydée. Adrien is not the right, he has only just fallen out with his girlfriend, who did not want to accompany him to the sea, but prefers to spend the summer in London. Adrien, who sees himself as a modern Dandy wants a friend selling a Chinese vase. In addition, he has set out to spend time in the villa with nothing. In his plans he is disturbed by Haydée, the new daily lovers meet - a provocation for the two men living alone.
Soon Adrien's thoughts revolve only around the girl of whom he assumes she wants to seduce him. Haydée now begins an affair with Daniel, but the mood of the three is getting worse. Finally, Daniel is traveling from and Adrien and Haydée reconciliation. The art collector Sam shows up and buys the vase. To encourage him to him to fund a gallery, Adrien Haydée causes you to spend time with Sam one day, but remains uncertain whether Haydée has slept with Sam. On the way back to the villa Adrien looks forward to spend with the girl the last week of the holidays as the perfect affair. Move Haydée encounters acquaintances inviting them to Rome, and Adrien leaves - like a spur of the moment out - the girl with her friends back and returns back alone in the empty mansion.
His hope to finally get the true recovery, not fulfilled. Everywhere he is reminded of Haydée. In the end, he inquires by telephone after flight options from Nice to London to return to his girlfriend.
Reviews
" Diary -like, cool distanced by the restrained design of an embossed depiction of pseudo philosophy practice which assessment Rohmer leaves it to the audience. "
" Still, this film looks like a film from another planet or from another, later time, still sounds like the promise of happiness he gives, fantastic. That would not be so, and one day it will no longer be so "
" Rohmer 's impossibly light graceful way of posing profound moral questions Has not yet wholly coalesced, through this 1966 movie does have his soft, slow rhythm. "
Background
- The film received by the voice-over Adrien's a diary character who commented on the everyday events and the self-assessment of the main character reveals that justifies his actions as part of a philosophy of life. For him and Daniel Haydée is a collector: She sleeps around everywhere, but with the system and with the organization.
- The three main actor Patrick Bauchau, Haydée and Daniel Politoff Pommereulle improvised her lines over long distances and are therefore also referred to as an employee on the script.
- The other films of the cycle, the short film The baker of Monceau (1962 ) and the feature films The career of Suzanne (1963 ), My Night at Maud (1969 ), Claire's Knee (1970) and Love in the Afternoon (1972).
Awards
The film won both the 1967 Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Special Jury Prize and the Prize for the Best Film for young people. He was also nominated for the Golden Bear at the festival.