An Unheralded French New Wave Master Gets the Spotlight in Trailer for Jacques Rozier Retrospective

“I was lucky and so excited to discover [Jacques Rozier’s] Adieu Philippine earlier this year in France, because it is very little known and not available in the U.S. It’s my new favorite French New Wave film,” Richard Linklater lately stated as he works on post-production on his forthcoming movie about the French New Wave.

Now, audiences will lastly have the probability to find Rozier’s quite unheralded work because of new restorations coming from Janus Movies. “Jacques Rozier: Chronicler of Summer,” a retrospective of the French New Wave filmmaker’s influential profession, that includes all 5 of his options and a number of quick movies, will kick off at NYC’s Movie at Lincoln Middle from August 16 by August 22. That includes a number of new restorations of Rozier’s signature works, together with 4K restorations of Close to Orouët (1971) and Maine-Océan Categorical (1986), the first trailer and poster for the collection have arrived.

“It is well-established that the French New Wave forever changed our understanding of what a film could be, playing with both the medium’s formal conventions and Hollywood’s immortal iconography to produce some of cinema’s most stylish and enduringly influential works,” notes the press launch. “Yet, for as large as such figures as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Éric Rohmer loom within standard accounts of this incomparably fertile period of film history, less well-known are the works of their contemporary Jacques Rozier, whose 1962 debut feature, Adieu Philippine, was a particular cause for the critic-iconoclasts of Cahiers du Cinéma.”

“Across five idiosyncratic, episodic features, and an assortment of fiction and documentary short films, Rozier distinguished himself from his peers through his fixation on the idea of vacations as theatrical staging grounds upon which his magnetic actors could play and simply be, making him something like a more lighthearted (though no less complex) counterpart to his fellow New Waver, Jacques Rivette. It is remarkable that Rozier’s influence has been so profoundly felt considering how rarely his singular films have screened outside of France.”

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