{"id":5025,"date":"2007-12-21T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:55:46","slug":"claires-knee-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5025","title":{"rendered":"Claire&#8217;s Knee (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Every woman has her most vulnerable point. For some, it&#8217;s the nape of the neck, the waist, the hands. For Claire, in that position, in that light, it was her knee.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster-193x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster-658x1024.png 658w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster-82x128.png 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster-173x270.png 173w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Claires-Knee-Poster.png 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile on vacation near the Swiss border, a soon-to-be-married diplomat (Jean-Claude Brialy) runs into an old writer friend (Aurora Cornu) who&#8217;s boarding with a divorced mom (Michele Montel) and her teenage daughter Laura (Beatrice Romand). Laura quickly develops a crush on Brialy, who flirts back innocently in return; meanwhile, when Laura&#8217;s blonde step-sister Claire (Laurence de Monaghan) arrives, Brialy develops an irrepressible urge to caress her knee, and is encouraged by Cornu to find a way to do so.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character Studies<\/li>\n<li>Eric Rohmer Films<\/li>\n<li>French Films<\/li>\n<li>Infidelity<\/li>\n<li>Vacation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Claire&#8217;s Knee<\/em> &#8212; the fifth installment in Eric Rohmer&#8217;s sextet of &#8220;Moral Tales&#8221; &#8212; is, like its companion films, focused on exploring a young male&#8217;s dalliance with temptation, and how he eventually resolves this temptation within himself. Here, Jerome (Brialy) is engaged to be married, but, egged on by an old friend (non-actress Cornu is perfectly cast), decides he might as well spend his last summer of &#8220;freedom&#8221; testing the boundaries of his desires. Indeed, Brialy&#8217;s friendship with Cornu has an air of <em>Dangerous Liaisons<\/em> to it, with romantic dares posited and enacted, then discussed with delight in the aftermath; in this case, however, Brialy&#8217;s actions are relatively benign: his flirtation with Romand is welcomed and returned, and his attempt to &#8220;touch Claire&#8217;s knee&#8221; &#8212; while clearly not done with reciprocation in mind &#8212; is similarly mild. These days, a film in which an underage (16-year-old) teenager seriously considers an affair with a man twice her age and nobody blinks an eye is dated but refreshing, making <em>Claire&#8217;s Knee<\/em> a thoughtful diversion. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean-Claude Brialy as Jerome<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-brialy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-brialy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5026\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Aurora Cornu as Jerome&#8217;s novelist friend<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-cornu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-cornu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5027\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Beatrice Romand as Laura<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-romand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-romand.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5028\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cornu trying to trick Jerome into accidentally touching Claire&#8217;s knee<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-trick.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-trick.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5029\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nestor Almendros&#8217; beautiful cinematography of the French countryside<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/claires-knee-cinematography.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5030\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, as one of Rohmer&#8217;s most celebrated films. Listed as a film with Historical Importance and as a Personal Recommendation in the back of Peary&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Important Director<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0065772\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/movie\/review?_r=1&#038;res=9C07E2D71F30E73BBC4A51DFB466838A669EDE&#038;oref=slogin\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/claires-knee-1971#:~:text=Jean%2DClaude%20Brialy%20is%20excellent,faithful%20to%20the%20unseen%20Lucinda.&#038;text=%22Claire's%20Knee%22%20is%20a%20movie,good%20films%2C%20and%20think%20occasionally.\">Roger Ebert&#8217;s Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s2070knee.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/claires-knee\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every woman has her most vulnerable point. For some, it&#8217;s the nape of the neck, the waist, the hands. For Claire, in that position, in that light, it was her knee.&#8221; Synopsis: While on vacation near the Swiss border, a soon-to-be-married diplomat (Jean-Claude Brialy) runs into an old writer friend (Aurora Cornu) who&#8217;s boarding with a divorced mom (Michele Montel) and her teenage daughter Laura (Beatrice Romand). Laura quickly develops a crush on Brialy, who flirts back innocently in return;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5025\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87900,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/87900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}