Rent The Girl at the Monceau Bakery / Suzanne's Career (1963)
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The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (1962)
The first in the 'Moral Tales' series, narrated by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, is a charming short shot on the streets of Paris in Rohmer's naturalistic style. Barbet Schroeder plays a young man whose affections are divided between two beautiful girls - one he meets on the street and another who works in a local bakery - but finds himself faced with the dilemma of choosing between them.
Suzanne's Career (1963)In Rohmer's tale of adolescent naivete, Bertrand, a shy and reserved student, finds himself consumed with jealousy and resentment as he observes his roguishly confident best friend Guillaume exploit the generosity of the sweetly seductive Suzanne. - Actors:
- Bernard Verley, Aurora Cornu, Patrick Bauchau, Barbet Schroeder, Philippe Beuzen, Catherine See, Christian Charriere, Diane Wilkinson, Jean-Claude Biette, Jean-Louis Comolli, Pierre Cottrell, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junk, Michel Mardore
- Directors:
- Eric Rohmer
- Producers:
- Barbet Schroeder, Georges Derocles
- Voiced By:
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Narrated By:
- Barbet Schroeder, Bertrand Tavernier
- Writers:
- Eric Rohmer
- Aka:
- La Boulangère de Monceau / La Carrière de Suzanne
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide to Claude Chabrol, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Éric Rohmer
- Countries:
- France
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From Paris, Avec Amour - The Girl at the Monceau Bakery / Suzanne's Career review by CH
Before the series of feature films which brought Eric Rohmer an international audience - at any rate, amongst those with a francophile taste for long conversations of a philosophical hue (with an undertow of amorous aspiration) - he made a number of short, black-and-white items in the early-Sixties.
These find him experimenting with the methods which would sustain the films he made until his death at a venerable age a decade ago. Two have been issued on a DVD. One is The Bakery Girl of Monceau and the other, Suzanne's Career. What's more, two others are hidden in the “special features” (and one of these has Godard in a rare acting rôle).
To focus on the Bakery one. Here is an evocation of Paris in 1963. Yes, those Citroens, cafés, and, of course, the eponymous Boulangerie.
In these twenty minutes or so, Barbet Schroeder - he playing a Law student - sees a woman (Michele Giardon) going by several times and, whether by accident of design, they collide - and become due to meet again (a stock situation of many a story or film); that does not come to pass, and Schroeder, morose, finds consolation in the bakery, where he becomes enchanted by the eighteen-year-old girl behind the counter.
Simple as the plot might appear, and with scant time for it to evolve far, it is absorbing, everything caught on the hoof.
And given plangency by learning that, a decade later, in the mid-Seventies, Michele Giardon killed herself at thirty-six. One should have relished seeing her in much more - but time's ever-rolling credits are a tough ride.
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