Rohmer's films are driven by dialogue and mise en scene: not plot. This means they'll always delimit their audience to a certain extent - especially in a culture that has never been so driven or influenced by narratives.

But that's why I love Rohmer. His films are realist. They are intimate. They are also very beautiful.

He doesn't frame a shot in a formalistic manner but in a nonchalant & painterly way. If I had to name a modern heir in…

about half way through this austen adaptation, elizabeth and darcy meet under these huge roman columns, amidst the pouring rain, with the verdant rolling english countryside surrounding them, when darcy utterly blindsides elizabeth by - of all things - proposing! then they proceed to argue vociferously. elizabeth informs him that he's basically the last man on earth she would ever want to marry. and yet, before darcy storms off, they share such an erotically charged moment that it puts many…