Hou Maichuan

A mysterious, low-key film director,

An all-around artist who also writes, draws, composes, and occasionally guest-stars.

French New Wave film master.

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Rohmer's birth, the biography is published for the first time in simplified Chinese.

30 precious photos fully show the filmmaker's life.

We don't just live, life is a big screen, a movie. —— Rohmer

Did you know that the twenty-five feature films he made during his lifetime attracted more than one million viewers in France and around the world? His films are full of strong literary and philosophical taste, full of keen observation and subtle capture of life.

Did you know that behind the alias of Eric Rohmer, there is another man named Maurice? Sheikh's man? Low-key and mysterious, he leads a parallel life and always likes to hide behind his film work. Before his mother died, she thought her son was a middle school teacher.

Did you know that he personally writes, directs and edits the vast majority of film productions? Rohmer can be said to be the one who most implements the "author theory" among the New Wave directors, and is called "the most free director" by the French film industry.

This is the most detailed biography of Rohmer to date, describing a strict esthete, devout Catholic, editor of Cahiers Cahire and TV producer, citizen who watched political movements with dispassionate attention, and who lived before the French Revolution. Rememberers of the old regime...

After his death in 2010, the 140 boxes and as many as 20,000 copies of materials left by Rohmer became the main materials for writing this book. Readers can gain an in-depth understanding of this all-round artist full of contradictions and complex personality through this 600-page tome.

Éric Rohmer (Éric Rohmer, 1920—2010), whose real name is Maurice Scheher, is a novelist, film critic, international film master, and representative of French New Wave films. He majored in classical literature when he was a student, and has been a professor of literature since 1942. From 1957 to 1963, he served as the editor-in-chief of the far-reaching "Film Manual" magazine.

Rohmer's films are full of strong literary and philosophical flavors, as well as subtle captures of life, mainly including the "Moral Stories" series, "Comedy and Proverbs" series, and "Four Seasons Tales" series.

Rohmer once described his films as "thoughts rather than actions", concerned with "not what people do, but what they think when they do them". In 1983, Rohmer won the "Silver Bear Award for Best Director" at the Berlin International Film Festival for "Pauline on the Beach"; in 1986, he won the "Golden Lion Award for Best Film", the highest honor at the Venice International Film Festival for "Green Light" " and the International Film Critics FIPRESCI Award; in 2001, he was awarded the "Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement" at the Venice International Film Festival.