Claire's Knee (Le Genou de Claire)

Name: Claire's Knee (Le Genou de Claire)
Duration: 1 h 45 min

1hr 45m

1hr 45m
3.8/5 (7.8K)
69%

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's… More Details »

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Director:

Éric Rohmer

Producer:

Pierre Cottrell, Barbet Schroeder

Writer:

Éric Rohmer

Release Date:

Feb 21, 1971

Runtime:

1hr 45m

Synopsis

On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage half-sisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

Cast

Jean-Claude Brialy
Aurora Cornu
Béatrice Romand
Laurence de Monaghan
Michèle Montel
Gérard Falconetti
Fabrice Luchini
Sandra Franchina

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.8

RATINGS 288 FANS

3.8

Aug 2, 2020

the story of an older man lusting after teens is an icky and taboo subject that's almost always mishandled, and, arguably, doesn't need to be told, but rohmer explores it with an unthinkable elegance. his definitive knack for dialogue translates the inexplicable into the…

1.2K Likes

mia lee vicino

May 2, 2020

broke: tarantino foot fetish woke: rohmer knee kink

793 Likes

Holli

Apr 2, 2013

Eric Rohmer's 5th Moral Tale -->Possible moral topic(s) treated: Emotional manipulation for the fulfillment of perverted fantasies. BAM!! Rohmer accomplishes the ridiculously difficult task of putting into coherent (sometimes sophisticated, but never sophistic) words…

605 Likes

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋
Mar 30, 2017

That knee sure was... Claire's.

517 Likes

dani🇵🇸

Sep 6, 2015

Some say that women are always over-analyzing everything. Well, men are trying to justify everything they do (especially their desires) with the most idiotic and weirdest (to the point where they don't make sense) justification. For a while I watched the film without…

491 Likes

V. Lepistö

Nov 3, 2018

this is just call me by your name without gays

452 Likes

megan
May 2, 2021

In some respects this might be a better Lolita adaptation than Kubrick's actual treatment of Nabokov. Like that novel, Claire's Knee is set so deeply within its protagonist's warped perspective that no matter how vigorously your conscious mind rejects the grown man's…

336 Likes

Jake Cole

Aug 2, 2020

kind of a knee slapper if u will

317 Likes

KYK

Apr 2, 2023

shotout to gérôme for being the worst guy ever

296 Likes

mary