Eric Rohmer-Le Genou de Claire (1970)

"Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested to others ?" says Jérome, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat's daughter by summer's end. Before then, Jérome spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-years-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura's long-legged, blonde half sister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jérome's moral crisis and creates both one of French cinema's most enduring moments and what has become the iconic image of Rohmer's Moral Tales.

In Rohmer's "Six Contes Moraux - V : Le Genou de Claire (1970)" cultural attache Jerome spends his last holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, but he falls for Laura's half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065772/plotsummary)



Abrasive, self-deluded humor tinges the prickly exploration of sexual politics in French director Eric Rohmer's world and it often makes for less-than-comfortable viewing. Though Rohmer has made movies for several decades, his best-known films comprise a cycle loosely dubbed "The Six Moral Tales" (one short, one featurette, and four features), which also includes La Collectionneuse, My Night at Maud's, and Chloe in the Afternoon. (www.amazon.com)



Rohmer's comedies are full of the disillusion and jaded settling that come with age and adulthood, and he sharply contrasts cynicism against the naiveté and easy, innocent wisdom of youth. (www.amazon.com)


In Claire's Knee, Jean-Claude Brialy plays a diplomat named Jerome Montcharvin, who agrees to housesit a friend's rural but lavish country estate for a month. Jerome appears contented with life as he's recently become engaged to Lucinde, a woman he's known for six years. (www.amazon.com)


He takes refuge in the fact that she is his opposite, and placates his doubts by reminding himself that "a woman made for me would bore me." Into this summer idyll and Jerome's predictable, ordered life come two teenage girls who threaten his faithful but passionless ardor for his fiancée. (www.amazon.com)


To temper his awakening libido, Jerome pretends to "experiment" with the young women's affections and, in doing so, exposes himself as a cruel, callous man who is clueless as to his true nature. (www.amazon.com)


Though a close woman friend cautions him that "in love, there is will," he dismisses the possibility yet in the end performs an act of "pure will" with one of the teens, the lovely Claire, and brashly hurts that which he most desires. (www.amazon.com)


Claire's Knee was shot by the brilliant cinematographer, the late Nestor Almendros, and the color palette in the film is a masterpiece of style and scheme. It's a Monet on celluloid, and its visual prowess, combined with the provocative, unsettling theme, earned the National Society of Film Critics' Best Film prize in 1971. (www.amazon.com)


Claire's knee is a gem picture. Eric Rohmer was in the peak of his creative powers with this movie in the early seventies when decided to make that film plenty of sugestive rendition for the femenine charm about a middle aged man who falls in love with a sweet and slender teenager and the main motive of his affection is the knee. This script will originate a set of funny and smart situations that will rejoin you with the cinema considered as the seventh art. This treasured film must be included in your personal list of the great French films in any age.
Rohmer is one the most prolific and original directors who came from the New Wave, and was also one of the most important signs of the Cahiers du Cinema in the early fifties with Chabrol, Truffaut and Goddard. (www.amazon.com)


The title of this charming film by Eric Rohmer is perhaps too provocative. It really gives the wrong impression, yet Claire's knee is exactly the central point of the film, although in a way that will surprise you. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065772/usercomments)


This is the story about a thirty-something year old diplomat, Jerome Montcharvin, who encounters two pretty girls, sixteen and eighteen years old, while on vacation at Lake Annecy in France (near Lake Geneva, Switzerland) a month before his wedding and finds that they affect him more strongly than he might have expected. It is especially Claire who brings out a side of his personality that is seldom exposed, much to the merry interest of his friend, Aurora, a writer, who has guided his interest in the girls, ostensibly as material for a story she is writing. Claire's Knee, it need be said immediately has not so much to do with the pretty girl's knee as it has to do with the protagonist's self-perception. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065772/usercomments)


Pretty teen Laurence de Monaghan who played "Claire" , stopped acting professionally and became a lawyer. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065772/board/nest/42793796)





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