Tell me where is fancy bred,/ . . . in the heart or in the head?
William Shakespeare
In the knee, actually. Or so says Author-Director Eric Rohmer (My Night at Maud's). As always, Rohmer remains resolutely out of style. People go to bed and talkonly talkthe whole night through. The quarry always contrives to keep the pursuer in view. Politesse is stressed; sexual desire hovers about conversations, but some things are just not spoken in mixed company.
In Claire's Knee, Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a 35-year-old diplomat, is about to marry his longtime inamorata. Before...
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