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The Collector

1967
Romance, Comedy
1h 29m
Adrien goes to a villa on the Mediterranean. He is in vacation, and wants to do absolutely nothing. He has to share the villa with a friend... (imdb)
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The Collector

1967
Romance, Comedy
1h 29m
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Rated 21 Jan 2008
66
28th
My least favorite of the Moral Tales. The male protagonists in the other films, although flawed and weaselly, had some kind of redeeming qualities. Adrien is just a lazy, narcissistic jerk and so is his friend Daniel. From the outset I didn't like either one of them, and I didn't really like Haydee either. These people were too shallow and delusional to spend time with. This could have been Rohmer's intention, but I felt like I had little emotional investment in the outcome.
Rated 03 Jan 2014
95
94th
duygusal tansiyonu çok yüksek bir film. hatta bu açıdan My Night at Maud's'la pek benzeşiyorlar bence. -ki Six Moral Tales'in en iyi iki filmi bunlar bana göre.- dalgalı ve belirsiz ilişkileri yüksek bir hissiyatla anlatmakta, ve dahi bunu seyirciye aynı sıcaklıkla geçirmekte Eric Rohmer'in üstüne yok. film herkese dokunmayabilir ama beni yakaladı. tam anlamıyla "hissedebildim" yani. çok sevdim.
Rated 07 Mar 2008
75
44th
With unlikeable leads, this is a hard film to get emotionally invested in. The scenarios in the film were interesting as moral dilemmas and the film does capture a certain mood and lifestyle very well, but with it all being presented through characters I disliked, but didn't really hate, my interest wandered. I will say the ending went some wasys toward redeeming the picture.
Rated 04 Mar 2012
75
79th
Somewhere between the mysterious monologues and dialogues there is great depth and a profound meaning - but also a lot of fun and severe self-indulgence.
Rated 08 Nov 2011
98
94th
Hilarious film on the dandyism and self-absorption of Adrien; a charming French misogynist. I especially loved Sam's campy character; a spray-tanned Alpha 60-sounding art collector.
Rated 04 Sep 2020
85
64th
Funny (and understandable) how men guard against a girl's sexual attraction with all the psychological and conceptual (ideological) tools they can find, which actually interestingly act as the detour of mutual attraction and seduction, and how they end up being drawn out of their withdrawal by this little game that who knows who starts and which always has a tint of monologue.
Rated 03 Jan 2023
59
34th
The start of Rohmer's fascination with middle-class, pseudo-intellectual boring men. These men are scared of vibrant, intelligent challenging women and therefore go for younger more inexperienced girls.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
61
37th
# 775
Rated 06 Mar 2017
93
92nd
Jesus Fucking Christ. O Rohmer é uma espécie de especialista em macho chato do caralho (espero que ele não se identifique com eles, credo), mas uma vez que você consiga passar pelas suas insuportáveis personagens masculinas, você estará diante de um grande filme.
Rated 17 Jun 2022
91
80th
Peacefulness is so elusive.
Rated 09 Mar 2010
71
50th
The third of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" was made before both _My Night at Maud's_ and _Claire's Knee_.
Rated 29 May 2010
5
80th
The last chapter of this won me over like few films ever have. Extraordinary, really, based on my initial impressions of these obnoxious and vapid people. I still think the camerawork is mainly dull and the actors don't give much, but the calculated text of Rohmer wins me over, as usual. Note to viewers - likable characters should not always be mandatory for a piece to work.
Rated 10 Dec 2013
6
83rd
a very slow and relaxed film about a man on a vacation, with excellent use of an unreliable narrator, which seems to be one of rohmer's specialties. wonderful scenic photography too.
Rated 02 Dec 2011
56
12th
#880
Rated 19 Dec 2008
62
24th
760
Rated 07 May 2011
78
83rd
Deliciously modern and disattached: it's a Pauline at the Beach with a Nouvelle Vague sensibility.
Rated 01 Nov 2013
76
69th
Dudes are so bad at heterosexuality. I guess that's the discourse in any Rohmer film, but it's said most bluntly here.
Rated 23 Sep 2018
74
71st
A bourgeois tale of ego, manipulation and domination. Nice esthetics. But the main point is the wrongheadedness of the narrator. While in most movies, the narrator is almost omniscient, here he is just hobbling along, trying to rationalize the behaviors of others and his own. And fails at it. Maybe that's what Rohmer wants to point out, the way one can adapt their viewpoints to accommodate events, but still feel righteous about it.
Rated 22 Feb 2013
80
81st
watched: 2013, 2021
Rated 15 Jan 2010
58
16th
836
Rated 11 Sep 2013
90
88th
Agustos 2013, Cesme &
Rated 20 Sep 2008
80
68th
Like so many of Rohmer's movies, this centers around a young girl. Most of the movie is about the actions of the male characters, which are entirely about either (a) trying to loosen the babe's undergarments, or (b) their bitterness about the babe no longer allowing them access or their failure to get such access in the first place, although they voice a lot of elaborate rationales about why this isn't so. It's pretty goddamn funny throughout
Rated 02 Mar 2014
97
97th
Magnifique
Rated 04 May 2009
81
91st
Nice Movie
Rated 05 Sep 2015
85
59th
Viewed September 4, 2015. Maybe it's just the gorgeous color photography talking, but this feels like a snappier, more visually inventive Rohmer film than the ones that precede it. The content - a dubious love triangle, steeped in arrogance and resentment - is par for the course at this point, but I really enjoy entering into Rohmer's hyper-intelligent discourse on men, women and how shitty we all are.
Rated 14 Mar 2009
80
84th
The most French film I've ever seen. Gorgeous and surprisingly deep for a movie. Excellent ending.
Rated 12 Mar 2010
4
74th
A lazy and narcissistic man attempts to rationalize his attraction to a younger woman. Rohmer really has a way with words, gradually revealing a character's true nature by allowing us to see through their petty exchanges. The narration lends it a literary quality, which successfully economizes a plot that goes through many motions. It has a soft, resigned tone, and even at just 87 minutes its pace is very patient. Beautiful countryside photography courtesy of Nestor Almendros.
Rated 17 Nov 2020
85
81st
Like the earlier Claire's Knee, this shares as many similarities and it does dissimilarities. There seems to be even more inner-monologues here, making this kind of (non-)seduction even more revealing, yet confusing. Most of these characters, though hardly likeable, are a blast to watch, particularly the moping ascetic Daniel. The moral here, although multi-varied, may be summed up eloquently as "thot, begone."
Rated 17 Feb 2021
85
84th
Self-sabotage in self-justification. Rohmer is keen on exploring the failures of intellectualizing desire. This comedy of errors is preceded by some philosophizing on the burden of thinking and escaping to fiction, which I found hit particularly close to home.
Rated 21 Feb 2021
85
74th
The inner turmoil of trying to subdue our natural desires. Attraction kept simple and true to it's unfolding. Moments painted in these warm landscapes make some of these scenes so unforgettable.
Rated 31 May 2021
98
98th
'I see only serious people and do only serious things.'
Rated 06 Aug 2021
65
32nd
7?
Rated 06 Jan 2022
68
66th
Rohmer understood quite a bit about male desire and the tendency men have to project it onto women, rationalise their feelings in entirely self serving ways and assume control when there is little or none. The narration is often obtrusive, but the shifting relationships and fine performances ensure that it's always interesting.
Rated 27 Sep 2022
94
95th
Adrien: Haydéeeeee Ben: Haydeeeeeee
Rated 31 Aug 2023
3
5th
Can only conclude that this has aged badly as I love 1980s/1990s Rohmer. The female character may as well have been a cardboard cut-out for all the agency she is allowed to display. The male characters are tedious in the extreme.
Rated 13 Oct 2023
70
65th
While it's my least favorite of Rohmer's six Moral Tales, it's still worth seeing, albeit mostly for his striking compositions.

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