ERIC ROHMERFrench film-maker Eric Rohmer, who died on 11 January, 2010, at the age of 89, was one of the key figures of the post-war New Wave cinema movement.He made more than 20 feature films including My Night at Maud's, released in 1969 which brought him international recognition, Claire's Knee (1970) and Love In the Afternoon (1972).In 2001 he was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in Italy for his lifetime's work.His films feature very little action and concentrate instead on lengthy conversations between characters.Born Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer in 1920, he moved to Paris to became a literature professor and a journalist. Literary works heavily influenced his style of film making.Under the name Gilbert Cordier, he released his first and only novel, Elizabeth, in 1946 before moving on to making films. The New Wave tried to achieve a more improvised style free from the constraints of classical cinema.Rohmer said he wanted to look at "thoughts rather than actions", dealing "less with what people do than what is going on in their minds while they are doing it".After the release of his last film, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, at the Venice film festival in 2007, he said he was considering retirement.
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