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Claire's Knee (French: Le Genou de Claire) is a 1970 French drama film directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth movie in the series of the Six Moral Tales.

Claire's Knee
Film poster
Directed by	Éric Rohmer
Written by	Éric Rohmer
Produced by	Pierre Cottrell Barbet Schroeder
Starring	Jean-Claude Brialy Aurora Cornu Béatrice Romand Laurence de Monaghan
Cinematography	Néstor Almendros
Edited by	Cécile Decugis
Distributed by	Les Films du Losange (France) Columbia Pictures (USA)
Release dates	11 December 1970 (1970-12-11) (France) 21 February 1971 (1971-02-21) (USA)
Running time	106 minutes
Language	French
Box office	638,445 admissions (France)[1]

Plot

The story happens between 29 June and 29 July, presumably in 1970. Intertitles of the dates are displayed before the daily events are shown.

While holidaying at Lake Annecy on the eve of his wedding, career diplomat Jérôme accidentally meets up with Aurora, an old personal friend. Through Aurora, he meets Aurora's landlady, Madame Walter, and Laura, Madame Walter's youngest teenage daughter. Observant Aurora detects Laura's crush on Jérôme, and advises Jérôme of such. After Jérôme and Laura take a hike in the mountains together, she confesses that she is "a little in love with" Jérôme.

Days later (on 8 July), Laura's attractive older step-sister Claire arrives. Upon seeing Claire's knee while she is on a ladder, Jérôme finds himself longing to touch it. However, he controls his temptation. Eventually an opportunity presents itself during a boat trip on the lake when Jérôme and Claire have to seek shelter in a hut from an approaching storm. Jérôme tells Claire that he saw her boyfriend, Gilles, together with another girl. When Claire starts to cry Jérôme consoles her by placing his hand upon Claire's knee.

Cast

• Jean-Claude Brialy as Jérôme Montcharvin, the diplomat
• Aurora Cornu as Aurora, the novelist
• Béatrice Romand as Laura, the younger step-sister
• Laurence de Monaghan as Claire, the elder step-sister
• Michèle Montel as Madame Walter, the mother of Laura
• Gérard Falconetti as Gilles
• Fabrice Luchini as Vincent

Accolades

The film received the Louis Delluc Prize for Best French film of the year,[2] the 1971 Prix Méliès and the Grand Prix at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[3] It was named Best Film by the National Society of Film Critics and Best Foreign Film by the National Board of Review. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards.

It was a huge international success. Vincent Canby called it "something close to a perfect film."[4] Cecile Mury of Télérama said "This camera outdoors gives the appearance of a small story where it goes 'nothing.' Yet these 'fragments of a love speech' make up a special study of desire, verbal pleasure, almost literary, which accompanies every inclination. A jewel."

Style

It was Rohmer's second film shot in color, with Rohmer explaining "the presence of the lake and the mountains is stronger in color than in black and white. It is a film I couldn't imagine in black and white. The color green seems to me essential in that film...This film would have no value to me in black and white."[4]

References

External links

• Claire's Knee at IMDb
• Claire's Knee at AllMovie
• Claire's Knee at the TCM Movie Database
• Claire's Knee at Rotten Tomatoes
• Claire’s Knee: Rohmer’s Women an essay by Molly Haskell at the Criterion Collection
• on Claire’s Knee by Daniel Hayes

На других языках

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[ru] Колено Клер

«Колено Клер» (фр. Le Genou De Claire) — пятый фильм Эрика Ромера из серии «Сказки с моралью». Экранизация произведения, автор которого — Жан Франсуа Мармонтель. Обладатель высшей награды кинофестиваля в Сан-Себастьяне.

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