Delusions and Distorted Desires

Delving into the filmmakers’ early works, youthful arrogance and romantic ambivalence take centre stage. In The Collector, a smug young man feigns detachment while attempting to assert control over a free-spirited woman during a summer retreat. Woman is the Future of Man presents two old friends revisiting a shared romantic past, revealing their self-delusions and emotional immaturity. Both films are stark examinations of the fragile male ego and the consequences of treating love as a game, exposing the moral blindness of men who believe they know what or who they want.

Original Title: La Collectionneuse
Director: Éric Rohmer
Runtime: 90 mins
Country: France
Language: French with English Subtitles
Rating: PG

Awards

SILVER BEAR EXTRAORDINARY JURY PRIZE
17th Berlin International Film Festival

Synopsis

After his fiancée goes to London, Adrien, an art dealer, decides to spend his vacation experimenting with a monastic life in a large house in St Tropez. However, the villa already has two occupants: his artist friend Daniel and Haydée, a woman who collects lovers and comes home at all hours of the night. Despite claiming indifference, he becomes obsessed with her, revealing his contradictions, vanity, and possessiveness.

The Collector, Rohmer’s fourth entry into the Moral Tales series, offers a detached and ironic look at the ways people rationalise their emotions, and how easily those rationalisations unravel their true motives.

Footnote:
Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales is his first acclaimed series exploring fragile men faced with moral dilemmas in love, torn between desire and principle, starting from 1963 with The Bakery Girl of Monceau, and ending with Love in the Afternoon in 1972.

For more screenings of Twin Tales: Hong Sang-soo and Éric Rohmer, please click here.

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