"Director: Éric Rohmer"

• The Essential Eric Rohmer Collection | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £79.90   |  Saving you £-49.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This 4-disc set spans the breadth of Rohmer's remarkable filmmaking career which remained fresh vital and inventive until the very end. All the films included display Rohmer's trademark intelligence and wit and maintain a remarkably consistent quality from his debut feature The Sign of Leo (one of the first films of the French New Wave) to romantic comedy Rendez-vous in Paris espionage thriller Triple Agent and his final extraordinary film The Romance of Astrea and Celadon. Films Comprise: The Roman of Astrea & Celadon Triple Agent The Sign of Leo Rendez-vous in Paris

• Love In The Afternoon | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  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.

• A Tale Of Springtime | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £19.66   |  Saving you £0.33 (1.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first part of Rohmer's 'Four Seasons' quartet of films. The well-ordered life of Jeanne a high school philosophy teacher suddenly spins into disorder when a young stranger she meets at a party involves her in a devilish scheme. Natacha an adolescent pianist with a penchant for subtly playing her elders invites Jeanne to her father's home...hoping to make a match of the two and send her father's current lover Eve packing. But when the tempestuous Eve arrives at every ""chanc

• Le Beau Mariage | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-16.38 (-102.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Headstrong Sabine (Beatrice Romand) who is working on her thesis in Art History has tired of affairs with married men such as Simon (Feodor Atkine). Playing cupid her best friend Clarisse (Arielle Dombasle) introduces her lawyer cousin Edmond (Andre Dusollier) to Sabine. Encouraged by Clarisse Sabine impetuously decides that she will marry Edmond and tells her mother (Thamila Megrah) and sister Lise (Sophie Renoir). When confronted by Sabine Edmond is forced to explain why he is

• The Aviator's Wife | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-10.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  La Femme de l'aviateur was the first in Eric Rohmer's celebrated Comedies and Proverbs series. Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivire). However his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day he sees her leaving home with her ex Christian (Mathieu Carrire) who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may hav

• Full Moon In Paris | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Full Moon in Paris, the fourth of Eric Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs, is also the most ironic and, in many ways, the most judgmental of his films. Louise (Pascale Ogier), a restless designer bored with sleepy suburban life outside of Paris, lives with her lover, Remy (Tcheky Karyo), a stable architect happy with a calm home life and a long-term relationship. The independent Louise decides to move back into her old Paris apartment during the week, losing herself in the bustle of dinner parties and nightclubs and single men, while spending her weekends back with Remy. Louise becomes briefly entangled with another man, a spontaneous musician who is the opposite of Remy, but in a neat twist on the formula, Remy himself drifts to another--at the suggestion of Louise herself. Willowy Ogier's kittenish sexuality and zest for life are wrapped in a self-absorbed determination that borders on indifference, but for the most part this is another wryly witty look at modern love from the master of the sophisticated romantic comedy. Fabrice Luchini plays Louise's best friend and conniving confidante, Octave, and Laszlo Szabo appears as a café patron who pontificates on the magical effects of the full moon. Ogier, who died shortly after the film's release, designed many of the handsome sets. Rohmer followed this with perhaps his most generous character study, the modestly magical romantic adventure Summer. --Sean Axmaker