150. Éric Rohmer: A Summer’s Tale
Notes de l’épisode
Fall in love with three beautiful podcast hosts; fumble the bag with all three. To prepare for our upcoming interview with director Mary Stephen, we study her work editing Éric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale. Almost five years following our initial series on the French auteur, have our thoughts changed on his calm naturalism? We compare his work to more recent Deep Cut director Hong Sang-soo, discuss the structure of his scenes, and wonder about how Stephen helped sculpt time in this film. Most importantly: do we really find that pouty French twink hot?
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:06:00 A Summer Tale context
00:10:38 General reactions
00:20:02 Film structure and opening
00:24:47 Gaspard’s conundrum
00:30:48 Margot
00:36:08 What is the film trying to say?
00:38:15 Naturalism and conversations
00:44:05 The passage of time
00:46:15 The audience’s trust
00:50:17 Hong v Rohmer, closing tangents