The Bakery Girl of Monceau & Suzanne’s Career make of a pair of films that are simply heartbreaking. Circa 1963, Rohmer displays why women don’t trust men as best as has been done on film. Not to be dismissed because they are short films, along with the other Moral Tales, these are some of his best works.
The oldest member of 1960s France’s Nouvelle Vague, the late Eric Rohmer receives the retrospective treatment starting today, through September 3rd, at New York’s Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center with “The Sign of Rohmer.”