La Collectionneuse
1967, NR, 88 min.
Directed by Eric Rohmer, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Alain Jouffroy, Daniel Pommereulle, Haydée Politoff, Patrick Bauchau.

“Love and Morality: The Films of Eric Rohmer” is an eight-film survey of films by the cerebral French master. In La Collectionneuse, a self-deluding art dealer becomes obsessed with ignoring the woman who happens to share his holiday villa. Rohmer delivers a study of self-rationalization at its finest. The movie is another one of his Moral Tales.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.