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Schmitz, Matthew
First things (New York, N.Y.), 10/2020Journal Article
The reconciled couple enjoys a quiet rapport, more profound by far than the one that existed between the wayward husband and his girlfriend. Rohmer avoided media and used a nom de plume (his real name was Maurice Scherer), in part to protect his mother from the knowledge that her son had grown up to be that disreputable thing, a director (incidentally, one of the most celebrated in France). Rohmer once observed that understanding Alfred Hitchcock requires setting aside terms like tracking, framing, and lenses-"the atrocious jargon of film"-and instead using terms such as "soul, God, devil,... redemption, and sin."
