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Véronique et son cancre
1958 Comedy
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Credits
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Director: Eric Rohmer
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Script: Eric Rohmer
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Photo: Charles L. Bitsch
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Cast: Nicole Berger (Véronique),
Stella Dassas (la mére)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 20 min; B&W
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Aka: Veronica and her dunce
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Summary
A middle-class woman engages a younger woman, Véronique, to give private tuition
to her lazy and undisciplined son. Having made no progress in mathematics,
Véronique attempts to get the young boy to write an essay, but without success.
Why waste time writing in two pages what you can say in two lines?
Review
Although pretty inconsequential when set aside much of Rohmer’s subsequent work, this
short film manages to be both charming and also offer an insight into Rohmer’s early film-making
technique. Even at this early stage in his career, the director is far more preoccupied
with showing the developing relationships between people (here a young boy and his private
teacher) than constructing a sophisticated narrative. Whilst the film feels somewhat
more contrived and less spontaneous than his subsequent films, it is nonetheless an engaging
work, which also provides an amusing and incisive satire on bourgeois life.
© James Travers 2002
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