Les Rendez-vous de Paris
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Les Rendez-vous de Paris [Rendez-vous in Paris] is a 1995 portmanteau
French film directed by Éric Rohmer
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Three loosely connected variations on the theme of the lover's rendezvous in Paris. The three episodes are titled "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures" (The Rendezvous of 7 hours), in which a student discovers her boyfriend is two-timing her, "Les Bancs de Paris" (The Benches of Paris), in which an unnamed woman has a series of meetings in parks with a handsome literature teacher from the suburbs, and "Mere et enfant 1907" (Mother and Child 1907), which takes its title from a Picasso
painting, and centres on an artist who is attracted by a stranger. The three stories of the film are linked by a girl singing in the streets to an accordion
accompaniment - a homage to René Clair
's Sous les toits de Paris.
Anthology film
An anthology film is a feature film consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event . Sometimes each one is directed by a different director...
French film directed by Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
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Three loosely connected variations on the theme of the lover's rendezvous in Paris. The three episodes are titled "Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures" (The Rendezvous of 7 hours), in which a student discovers her boyfriend is two-timing her, "Les Bancs de Paris" (The Benches of Paris), in which an unnamed woman has a series of meetings in parks with a handsome literature teacher from the suburbs, and "Mere et enfant 1907" (Mother and Child 1907), which takes its title from a Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
painting, and centres on an artist who is attracted by a stranger. The three stories of the film are linked by a girl singing in the streets to an accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
accompaniment - a homage to René Clair
René Clair
René Clair born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started a career as a journalist...
's Sous les toits de Paris.
Le Rendez-vous de 7 heures
- Clara Bellar : Esther
- Antoine Basler : Horace
- Mathias Mégard : Flirt
- Judith Chancel : Aricie
- Malcolm Conrath : Félix
- Cécile Parès : Hermione
- Olivier Poujol : Boy at Café
Mère et enfant, 1907
- Michael KraftMichael KraftMichael Kraft is a former German professional football goalkeeper. He played for 1. FC Köln, FC Gütersloh and FC Carl Zeiss Jena in Germany and Bakırköyspor in the Turkish Süper Lig.-External links:* *...
: The Painter - Bénédicte Loyen : The Young Woman
- Veronika Johansson : Swedish Woman