La Collectionneuse (1967) La collectionneuse (original title)

Director:

Eric Rohmer

Writers:

Patrick Bauchau (dialogue)
Eric Rohmer
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Release Date:

2 March 1967 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Adrien goes to a villa on the Mediterranean. He is in vacation, and wants to do absolutely nothing. He has to share the villa with a friend...

Plot Keywords:

Vacation | Mediterranean Sea | Libertine | Saint Tropez | French New Wave

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Patrick Bauchau	...	Adrien
Haydée Politoff	...	Haydée
Daniel Pommereulle	...	Daniel
Alain Jouffroy	...	Writer
Mijanou Bardot	...	Carole (as Mijanou)
Annik Morice	...	Carole's girlfriend
Dennis Berry	...	Charlie
Seymour Hertzberg
Néstor Almendros
Patrice De Bailliencourt	...	Homme dans l'auto
László Benkö
Anne Dubot
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jackie Raynal
Eugène Archer	...	Sam (uncredited)
Brian Belshaw	...	Haydée's boyfriend (uncredited)
Pierre-Richard Bré	...	Homme dans l'auto (uncredited)
Donald Cammell	...	Garçon à St-Tropez (uncredited)
Alfred de Graff	...	Touriste perdu (uncredited)

Directed by
Eric Rohmer

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Patrick Bauchau		dialogue
Haydée Politoff		dialogue
Daniel Pommereulle		dialogue
Eric Rohmer

Produced by
Georges de Beauregard	....	producer (as Georges De Beauregard)
Alfred de Graff	....	associate producer
Barbet Schroeder	....	producer

Original Music by
Blossom Toes
Giorgio Gomelsky

Cinematography by
Néstor Almendros

Film Editing by
Jackie Raynal		(as Jacquie Raynal)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
László Benkö	....	assistant director
Patrice De Bailliencourt	....	assistant director

Other crew
François Bogard	....	technical advisor

Production Companies

• Les Films du Losange
• Rome Paris Films

Distributors

• Criterion Collection, The (2006) (USA) (DVD)
• Fox Lorber (video)
• Guerilla Films (1991) (UK) (VHS)
• Homescreen (2006) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Images Distribution
• Kinokuniya (2004) (Japan) (DVD)
• Kinowelt Home Entertainment (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Pathé Contemporary Films (1971) (USA) (subtitled)

Also Known As:

"La collectionneuse" - France (original title)
"The Collector" - International (English title) (literal title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

France

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16 | USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Côte d'Azur, France

Company:

Les Films du Losange

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Five Obstructions (2003)

For me, this is the Rohmer's masterpiece

It's hard to explain what is the Rohmer's cinema. In his movies you can't find heroes, incredible adventures or great action sequences. Everything happens inside the mind of the characters, and the most important aspect is the psychology of them.

La Collectioneuse is simply the masterpiece of Rohmer.

The plot is very simple: two boys and one girl in their friend's house in St.Tropez. That's all. There are not incredible events that happen, they simply LIVE there. It's an typical situation of Rohmer who likes to study the evolution of love triangles, in different situations. The explanation of the development steps, made by the usual interior voice of the main character (Adrien), it's incredibly accurate and likely. It's fantastic that sometimes Adrien's thoughts look at first to be absurd, but even in this case if we reflect a bit to that we can realize that it's true, that really in similar cases we have non-sense thoughts like those. In this way, Rohmer is unique: the psycho-evolution of the characters is incredibly real. Dialogs, internal and not, are superb and the directing essential.

Rohmer shows us how it's possible to make a masterpiece with a ridiculous budget, and how an intellectual movie can be also enjoyable and not so heavy.

The vote, of course, can't be different by 10 out of 10.