Volume 55, Number 16 · October 23, 2008
Our Nights Chez Rohmer
By Geoffrey O'Brien
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
a film by Eric Rohmer
Eric Rohmer, who turned eighty-eight this year, has indicated that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (which was released in France in 2007 and recently opened commercially in New York) is likely to be his last film. An adaptation of an immensely long early- seventeenth-century novel, filmed on the cheap in natural settings with young and mostly untried actors, it is in every aspect a film no one else is likely to have thought of making—even if the same could be said of pretty much all Rohmer's films.
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