Along with his contemporary François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer created the most enduringly charming body of work among the French New Wave directors who, starting in the 1950s, pushed for a more personal and intimate cinema. Truffaut died young, at age 52, but Rohmer (1920-2010) kept working into his 80s, by which point he had completed more than two-dozen intricately modulated films. His work is difficult to find on streaming services, but this summer the Metrograph art-house cinema in New York showed three of his typically delicate and thoughtful works and is offering them on its accompanying streaming service, under the heading “Summer of Rohmer.”
