Opening his dossiers, scrutinizing his small notebooks with squared paper in search of the spark of inspiration for this film or that one, comparing the different phases of the same screenplay, projecting on his office wall test shots in Super8, in other words, offering at each step evidence of what he believes in, Rohmer reveals himself, undoubtedly, as he never has in the past. Love, rejection, decisions made, obsessions, doubts…

André S. Labarthe