Film Club: like a book club but faster
Posted by: SteveTomorrow, Thursday the 10th, at 7pm, we hope to see you at the Akron Art Museum for the next edition of Film Club.
Unless you hear differently we're watching and discussing Eric Rohmer's short film "The Bakery Girl of Monceau." It's the first of his classic series Six Moral Tales. It's free thanks to the museum. Meta-discussion afterward at the Lockview.
How this works is:
1. We watch it straight through once. (It's 23 minutes.)
2. We watch it again with the volume low so everyone in attendance can discuss it and stop it at points of interest.
3. Insight is shared and built upon!
Criterion's description of the film:
"Simple, delicate, and jazzy, the first of the “Moral Tales” shows the stirrings of what would become the Eric Rohmer style: unfussy naturalistic shooting, ironic first-person voice-over, and the image of the “unknowable” woman. A law student (played by producer and future director Barbet Schroeder) with a roving eye and a large appetite stuffs himself full of sugar cookies and pastries daily in order to garner the attentions of the pretty brunette who works in a quaint Paris bakery. But is he truly interested, or is she just a sweet diversion?"
written by SONYAThomas, June 23, 2010







