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- 1976
- PG
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 42 m
- 1976
- PG
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 42 m
Summary A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Directed By: Éric Rohmer
Written By: Heinrich von Kleist, Éric Rohmer
- 1976
- PG
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 42 m
- 1976
- PG
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 42 m
The Marquise of O
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Summary A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
Directed By: Éric Rohmer
Written By: Heinrich von Kleist, Éric Rohmer
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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25% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
85
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Rohmer, whose films ("Claire's Knee," "My Night at Maud's") are all about desire chilled in the icebox of custom, has brilliantly reproduced the impact of this rationally irrational story: he captures Kleist's almost surreal effect of a grenade whose exploding fragments somehow arrange themselves into a classically formal pattern. [1 Nov 1976, p.83]
It's a dazzling testament to the civilizing effects of several different arts, witty, joyous and so beautiful to look at that it must seem initially suspect to those of us who have begun to respond to spray-painted subway graffiti as the fine art of our time.
Marquise is almost ironically uninflected, like a tense game of chess. But soon the no-nonsense two-shots and scarlet-satin self-consciousness let the story build to genuine fireworks. No costume-drama escapism here, just distilled social warfare.
Although Rohmer's adaptation, shot in German with a cast of actors drawn from the German stage, is pedantically faithful to the letter of the original - almost word-for-word as well as scene-for-scene - it substitutes a style that seems woefully wrong. Rohmer's approach is too static and repressed to release the comic ironies Kleist perceived in the very premise of an honorable man's lapse leading to an honorable woman's distress and built into his brilliantly objective story-telling style. [21 Jan 1977, p.B15]
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Production Company
Janus Film,
Les Films du Losange,
Janus Filmproduktion GmbH,
Artemis Film,
Hessischer Rundfunk (HR),
Gaumont
Release Date Oct 24, 1976
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG
Tagline Eric Rohmer's New Film
Awards
German Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
