The baker from Monceau

Movie
German title	The baker from Monceau
Original title	La Boulangere de Monceau
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	1962
length	22 minutes
Rod
Director	Eric Rohmer
script	Eric Rohmer
production	Georges Derocles , ; Barbet Schroeder
camera	Jean-Michel Meurice , ; Bruno Barbey
cut	Jackie Raynal , ; Eric Rohmer
occupation
	Barbet Schroeder : Narrator; Fred Junk : Schmidt; Michèle Girardon : Sylvie; Claudine Soubrier : the baker; Michel Mardore : a customer;
chronology
	Successor → ; The career of Suzanne

The baker of Monceau (original title: La Boulangère de Monceau ) is a French short film from 1962 and the first part of the cycle Six moral stories by Éric Rohmer . The short film was shot in black and white and in 16 mm format and after editing it was set to music and provided with a comment (speaker: Bertrand Tavernier ).

action

The film takes place in Paris , around the Carrefour Villiers in the 17th arrondissement . The narrator, a law student shortly before his exams, falls in love with Sylvie, whom he meets regularly on the way from his apartment to dinner. His friend Schmidt encourages him to speak to Sylvie, which he then does. She shows interest, but initially declines an invitation to a café. From that day on he doesn't meet her anymore and so he starts looking for her.

To increase the likelihood of a reunion, the narrator skips dinner for the next few weeks and spends this time in the district's market. In a bakery he met the saleswoman Jacqueline and made an appointment with her. At that moment, Sylvie reappears, who had a leg in a cast after an accident and could only watch the narrator from her apartment across from the bakery. He moves the saleswoman and marries Sylvie.

Remarks

The bird's-eye view at the beginning of the film, which is atypical for Rohmer, is only explained towards the end: it is Sylvie's perspective, who watches the street from her apartment.

The other films in the cycle are The Career of Suzanne (1963), The Collector (1967), My Night with Maud (1969), Claire's Knie (1970) and The Afternoon Love (1972).

literature

Éric Rohmer: My night with Maud. Six moral narratives, one film cycle . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-24466-8 .

Web links

The baker of Monceau in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

^ Joel Magny: Eric Rohmer . Rivages, Paris 1986, p. 20.

[1] Joel Magny: Eric Rohmer . Rivages, Paris 1986, p. 20.