CPH:DOX 2013 /6
Richard Misek’s film ”Rohmer in Paris” will be screened at CPH:DOX November 14th and 16th.
At a certain point while watching this film I considered to call it ”Murder on Rohmer”… as the director has no reference to what was the true quality of the director’s oeuvre: “Classic and romantic, wise and iconoclastic, light and serious, sentimental and moralistic, he created the ‘Rohmer’ style, which will outlive him.” (Beautiful words expressed, but surely not written by Sarkozy when the director passed away). Anyway, the light poetry, the sensuality, the dialogues of Rohmer, as are in ”Ma Nuit Chez Maude” or ”Le Genou de Claire”, just to mention two of his masterpieces, are no way conveyed in the film clips from Misek, who has chosen a focus on the films of Rohmer, which are shot in Paris, therefore not the two mentioned.
On the contrary, Misek puts himself in the foreground, shifting from being schoolmaster, who tells the audience about ”la nouvelle vague”, Cahiers du Cinema, goes with some Rohmer characters in the streets of Paris, in the different districts, continuing to bring in a pretty prosaic commentary about himself, who happened to be in a Rohmer film. From film historian, to topograph, to ”I love you, Rohmer”, ”you are now in my film”… it’s banal and pretentious, close to a murder!
England, 2013, 72 min.
