La Collectionneuse

La Collectionneuse (1967)

Bombastic, womanising art dealer Adrien and his painter friend Daniel go on holiday at a 17th-century villa on the Riviera. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a 'collector' of men.

Date of release
1967-03-02
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (278)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Éric Rohmer
Collection
Six Moral Tales

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Saint-Tropez
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize

La Collectionneuse is a 1967 French comedy-drama film directed by Éric Rohmer. The fourth entry in his Six Moral Tales series, it is his first film in colour.

Production

Rohmer made the film with no budget and out of order while he waited for Jean-Louis Trintignant to be available for My Night at Maud's, and this structure possibly inspired the techniques and principles he and his cinematographer Nestor Almendros would return to in his later films: extensive rehearsal with the cast followed by very few takes; relying on natural light wherever possible, even for night scenes; "spying" fluid long shots to establish…

The character Sam was billed as Seymour Hertzberg but was in fact Eugene Archer, a former New York Times film reviewer. As well as providing the striking colour photography, Néstor Almendros appears in the film. The director and writer Donald Cammell had an uncredited role as well.

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