Claire’s Knee
“Why would I tie myself to one woman?” asks Jerôme in Claire’s Knee, though he plans to marry a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. He spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse, nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, her long-legged, blonde, older half sister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly incites a moral crisis for Jerôme while creating an image that is both the iconic emblem of Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales and one of French cinema’s most enduring moments.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Jerôme
- Aurora Cornu
- Aurora
- Béatrice Romand
- Laura
- Laurence de Monaghan
- Claire
- Michèle Montel
- Madame Walter
- Gérard Falconetti
- Gilles
- Fabrice Luchini
- Vincent
Credits
- Director
- Eric Rohmer
- Producer
- Barbet Schroeder
- Producer
- Pierre Cottrell
- Cinematography
- Nestor Almendros
- Cinematography
- Jean-Claude Rivière
- Cinematography
- Philippe Rousselot
- Sound
- Jean-Pierre Ruh
- Sound
- Michel Laurent
- Editing
- Cécile Decugis
- Editing
- Martine Kalfon
- Associate producer
- Alfred de Graaff
- Continuity
- Michel Fleury
- Gaffer
- Jean-Claude Gasché
- Still photography
- Bernard Prim
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