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El gusto por la belleza

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Este libro es una selección de artículos escritos por Eric Rohmer en los últimos treinta años y aparecidos en publicaciones tan diferentes como Les temps modernes, Ars, Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, Combat o, principalmente, Cahiers du cinéma, revista de la que el autor fue redactor jefe entre 1957 y 1963. Para Rohmer, lo esencial del cine no es el lenguaje, sino el ser. La misión del cine no consiste en decir de otro modo lo que las otras artes ya han dicho, sino en decir otra cosa con sus propios medios. Y ésa es la tesis principal que recorre el conjunto de estos textos, jalonados por la presencia constante de nombres como Renoir, Murnau, Hitchcock, Rossellini, Dreyer, etc. Una entrevista inédita y reciente, �El tiempo de la crítica�, abre la recopilación. En ella, el autor vuelve sobre sus escritos para matizarlos, glosarlos y a veces incluso para corregir lo que él cree que fueron, en su época, errores o excesos en la valoración de películas y directores.

282 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

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Éric Rohmer

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Éric Rohmer (born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer) was a French film director and screenwriter. He is regarded as a key figure in the post-war New Wave cinema and is a former editor of influential French film journal Cahiers du cinéma. He was also the brother of philosopher and pedagogist René Schérer.

Scherer fashioned his pseudonym from the names of two famous artists: actor and director Erich von Stroheim and writer Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu series.

Rohmer was the last of the French New Wave directors to become established. He worked as the editor of the Cahiers du cinéma periodical from 1957 to 1963, while most of his Cahiers colleagues, among them Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, were making their names in international cinema.

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An excellent introduction to the ideas of this master filmmaker.
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