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Claire's Knee
Directed by
Éric Rohmer
PG
1971
1h 45m
Drama
,
Romance
7.4
96%
84%
7.3
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On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.
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Cast of Claire's Knee
Jean-Claude Brialy
Jérôme
Aurora Cornu
Aurora, the novelist
Béatrice Romand
Laura
Laurence de Monaghan
Claire
Michèle Montel
Madame Walter
Gérard Falconetti
Gilles
Fabrice Luchini
Vincent
Sandra Franchina
Éric Rohmer
Director / Writer
Barbet Schroeder
Producer
Pierre Cottrell
Producer
Néstor Almendros
Director Of Photography
Michel Fleury
Continuity
Cécile Decugis
Editor
Martine Kalfon
Assistant Editor
Jean-Pierre Ruh
Sound
Michel Laurent
Sound Assistant
Alfred de Graff
Production Supervisor
Claire's Knee Ratings & Reviews
Moviepudding (Substack)
Elissa Suh
A more perfect inauguration and encapsulation of warm weather...
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Love, sex, fetishism, and objectification all receive verbal workouts in this witty and wise enterprise.
1More Film Blog
Kenneth R. Morefield
Claire's Knee is about desire, which is a timeless theme, and about how we justify acting on our desires, which is a very timely one.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A constellation of flirtations, glances, smiles and fibs pulled together by Rohmer with an exquisite Lubitsch deadpan, his camera as warm as sunlight and cutting like a scalpel
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] As much a French cultural touchstone as a charming and nuanced picture of desire "Claire's Knee" is Eric Rohmer's best-known film.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Rohmer's playful work is both witty and observant.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Despite their constant chatter, the characters come alive without seeming too intellectual or too removed.
TV Guide
One of Rohmer's greatest expressions of male-female relationships.
Looking Closer
Jeffrey Overstreet
The question at the center of this almost Shakespearean comedy is this: Why is it better to listen to our conscience in matters of love, rather than listen to our wayward, faithless heart?
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Claire's Knee is a movie for people who still read good novels, care about good films, and think occasionally.
Cleveland Press
Tony Mastroianni
Rohmer somehow makes it work. He creates a feeling for his people, makes their seemingly silly conversations dramatic. His is a movie completely concerned with nuances.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Comes very close to being a perfect movie of its kind.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Somewhere between insulting and repulsive, Claire's Knee purports to be about love but comes across as little more than infantile.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Perhaps the director's best-known and best-liked film.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
A charming French film about the tug-of-war between a man's structured beliefs and his desires.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The penultimate entry in Eric Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales, and the loveliest, most crystalline of the lot.
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