INTERPRETER
For this session of the Poésie Plate-forme season, entitled « Performing », we are pleased to welcome Amanda Langlet and Marie Rivière, two actresses particularly known for their work under the direction of Éric Rohmer.
In Éric Rohmer’s cinema, where words are both objects of intelligence and beauty, as well as the driving force of the action, freedom – born out of restriction – provides the actor with the potential for extraordinary latitude. It is this specific conjunction between a very crafted – although sometimes improvised – text and the personalities of its performers that creates the ‘matter’ so specific to his films.
From Perceval le Gallois to Triple Agent, from The Aviator’s Wife and Pauline at the Beach to Romance of Astree and Celadon, along with The Green Ray and Tales of Summer and Autumn, the filmmaker was particularly loyal to these two remarkable and emblematic actresses.
BIOGRAPHY
Amanda LANGLET
Amanda Langlet is an actress. Under the direction of Éric Rohmer, she starred in Pauline at the Beach in 1983, then appeared in A Tale of Summer in 1996 and Triple Agent in 2004. She has also featured in films by directors Bernard Queysanne, Didier Haudepin, Michel Deville, Lucas Belvaux, and Christine Dory.
Marie RIVIÈRE
Marie Rivière is an actress. She has appeared in eleven Éric Rohmer films: Perceval le Gallois, 1978; the stage and television productions of Kleist’s Catherine de Heilbronn, 1979 and 1980; The Aviator’s Wife, 1981; The Green Ray, 1986, which she also co-wrote; Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, 1987; A Tale of Winter, 1992; A Tale of Autumn, 1998; The Lady and the Duke, 2001; The Red Sofa, 2005; Romance of Astree and Celadon, 2007.
She has also featured in films by Jean-Claude Brisseau, Arielle Dombasle, Rosette, Alain Resnais, Christine Lipinski, John Lvoff, Philippe Faucon, Tonie Marshall, François Ozon, Rémi Bezançon, Marion Vernoux, and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. She has performed on stage under the direction of Carole Anderson and Delphine Hecquet, among others.
She has directed two films: La Règle du silence, with Marc Rivière, 1993, and En compagnie d’Éric Rohmer, 2010.
Marie Rivière has also written a novel, Un amour aux assises, publ. Bernard Barrault, 1988.