La Collectionneuse (1967)
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89% of critics liked it
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La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, La Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour).… More La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, La Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour). Patrick Bauchau plays a self-centered young man on summer holiday in the Mediterranean. He finds himself irresistibly attracted to Haydee (Haydee Politoff,) the aloof young woman who shares his St. Tropez villa. Haydee is a sexual libertine, a "collector of men" (hence the film's title), but she appears disinterested in Patrick. For his part, the hero assumes that the girl's promiscuity is deliberately calculated to prompt him to seduce her. Filmed in 1967, La Collectioneuse was released in the US in 1971, by which time the fourth of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, My Night at Maud's (69), had already debuted in America. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Eric Rohmer
- Written By
- Patrick Bauchau, Haydee Politoff
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International, Classics, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1966 Wide
- Studio
- Criterion Collection
Critic Reviews
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Tom Milne, Time Out
Wryly and delightfully witty.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
It's as if the film were a kind of living notebook for what Rohmer was to do later, with greater ease and refinement.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rohmer's impossibly light, graceful way of posing profound moral questions hasn't yet wholly coalesced, though this 1966 film does have his soft, slow rhythm.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
A translucent comedy of procrastination
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
Almendros captures the beauty of Politoff and the scenery with an acute sense of detail.
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Cast
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Haydee Politoff
as Haydee
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Patrick Bauchau
as Adrien
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Daniel Pommereulle
as Daniel
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Mijanou Bardot
as Carole
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Eugene Archer
as Sam Hertzberg
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Annick Morice
as Carole's Friend
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Denis Berry
as Charlie
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Donald Cammell
as Boy at St. Tropez
- Alain Jouffroy
