[SIX MORAL TALES V]: CLAIRE'S KNEE = [ SIX CONTES MORAUX V]: GENOU DE CLAIRE, LE

[SIX MORAL TALES V]: CLAIRE'S KNEE = [ SIX CONTES MORAUX V]: GENOU DE CLAIRE, LE

"“Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura’s long-legged, blonde stepsister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jerôme’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" (-DVD jacket)

ROHMER, Eric

1970

DVD

French w/ English subtitles

Feature Film (F)

S59970aDVD

106 min.