Claire's Knee

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Awards

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards 1972 - Won - Best Film

Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film

National Board of Review Awards 1972 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

National Society of Film Critics Awards 1972 - Won - Best Film

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Awards 1972 - Won - Best Film

Golden Globe Awards 1972 - Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film

National Board of Review Awards 1972 - Won - Best Foreign Language Film

National Society of Film Critics Awards 1972 - Won - Best Film

Prix Louis Delluc 1970 - Won - Prix Louis Delluc

San Sebastián International Film Festival 1971 - Won - Golden Seashell

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Claire's Knee

Director:
Eric Rohmer
106 Minutes
 

At A Glance

Film Synopsis

"Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?" says Jerome, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat's daughter by summer's end. Before then, Jerome spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen - year - old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura's long - legged, blonde stepsister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jerome's moral crisis and creates both one of French cinema's most enduring moments and what has become the iconic image of Rohmer's Moral Tales.

Available only as part of the Six Moral Tales Box Set.

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Details

Runtime:
106 min.

Country:
FRANCE

Language:
French

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
  • Rohmer's short film The Curve (1999)
  • An excerpt from the French television program Le journal du cinema, featuring interviews with Jean - Claude Brialy, Beatrice Romand, and Laurence de Monahagan
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • New and improved English subtitle translation

 

 

 

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Directed by
Eric Rohmer

Produced by
Pierre Cottrell
Barbet Schroeder

Writing credits
Eric Rohmer

Cast

Beatrice Romand
Michele Montel
Fabrice Luchini
Gerard Falconetti
Aurora Cornu

 

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