Although the late Eric Rohmer was best known for his literary and philosophical inquiries into our mores and preoccupations through such cinematic cycles as Moral Tales, Comedies and Proverbs and Tales of the Four Seasons, he, like many of his cohorts in the Nouvelle Vague movement, plied his craft in documentary. According to IMDB, Rohmer made docs for television in the 1960s, profiling such figures as Victor Hugo, Pascal and Mallarmé.
Here's an excerpt from a short doc on the Lumiere Brothers, with Cinematheque founder Henri Langlois and filmmaker Jean Renoir weighing in.
And here’s a short about women students in the French universities system. Nestor Alemendros is the cinematographer.
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