Claire's Knee

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Claire's Knee
Film poster
Directed by	Éric Rohmer
Produced by	Pierre Cottrell Barbet Schroeder
Written by	Éric Rohmer
Starring	Jean-Claude Brialy Aurora Cornu Béatrice Romand Laurence de Monaghan
Cinematography	Néstor Almendros
Editing by	Cécile Decugis
Release dates	February 21, 1971 (U.S. release)
Running time	105 minutes
Language	French

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

Plot

On the eve of his wedding, whilst holidaying at Lake Annecy, Jerome, a career diplomat, accidentally meets up again with Aurora, an old, very close friend. Through her Jerome meets her landlady, Madame Walter, together with her youngest teenage daughter, Laura. Aurora tries to talk Jerome into a flirt with Laura, but he initially resists the tease. Jerome and Laura undertake a hike together in the mountains, and she develops a schoolgirl crush for Jerome which he finds increasingly difficult to resist.

A few days later, Laura's attractive elder half-sister arrives, and Jerome proceeds to fall -- not for Claire in her alluring bikini, but for Claire's knee, which he irresistibly longs to touch.

However, Jerome controls his temptation. Eventually an opportunity presents itself during a boat trip on the lake when Jerome and Claire have to seek shelter in a hut from an approaching storm. Jerome tells Claire that he saw her boyfriend, Gilles, together with another girl. When Claire starts to cry Jerome consoles her by placing his hand upon Claire's knee.

Cast

Jean-Claude Brialy as Jerome, the diplomat
Aurora Cornu as Aurora, the novelist
Béatrice Romand as Laura, the younger half-sister
Laurence de Monaghan as Claire, the elder half-sister
Michèle Montel as Madame Walter, mother to Laura and Claire
Gérard Falconetti as Gilles
Fabrice Luchini as Vincent

Reception

The film received the Louis Delluc prize as best French film of the year.^[1]

References

↑ "Claire's Knee (1970)". NYT. The New York Times. Retrieved 18 May 2012.

External links

Claire's Knee at the Internet Movie Database
Claire's Knee at Rotten Tomatoes
Claire's Knee at allmovie
Criterion Collection essay by Molly Haskell
on Claire’s Knee by Daniel Hayes

v t e Films by Éric Rohmer

1950s	The Sign of Leo (1959)

1960s	The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) Suzanne's Career (1963) Paris vu par (segment "Place de l'Étoile") (1965) La Collectionneuse (1967) My Night at Maud's (1969)

1970s	Claire's Knee (1970) Love in the Afternoon (1972) L'enfance d'une ville (1975) The Marquise of O (1976) Perceval le Gallois (1978)

1980s	Catherine de Heilbronn (1980) The Aviator's Wife (1981) Le Beau Mariage (1982) Pauline at the Beach (1983) Full Moon in Paris (1984) The Green Ray (1986) Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) Les Jeux de société (1989)

1990s	A Tale of Springtime (1990) A Tale of Winter (1992) L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque (1993) Le trio en si bémol (1993) Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995) A Summer's Tale (1996) Autumn Tale (1998)

2000s	The Lady and the Duke (2001) Triple Agent (2004) Romance of Astree and Celadon (2007)

Shorts	Véronique et son cancre (1958) The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963) Les métamorphoses du paysage : l'ère industrielle (1964) Les cabinets de physique : la vie de société au 18e siècle (1964) Les caractères de La Bruyère (1965) Les histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe (1965) Entretien sur Pascal (1965) Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir (1968) Victor Hugo architecte (1969)

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