A more perfect inauguration and encapsulation of warm weather...

| Aug 21, 2023

Love, sex, fetishism, and objectification all receive verbal workouts in this witty and wise enterprise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 23, 2020

Claire's Knee, with its lucidity, bittersweet wit, unpredictable characters and tight directorial control, is certainly a rare bird among modern movies...

| Oct 21, 2019

Claire's Knee is about desire, which is a timeless theme, and about how we justify acting on our desires, which is a very timely one.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2019

A constellation of flirtations, glances, smiles and fibs pulled together by Rohmer with an exquisite Lubitsch deadpan, his camera as warm as sunlight and cutting like a scalpel

| Feb 15, 2015

[VIDEO ESSAY] As much a French cultural touchstone as a charming and nuanced picture of desire "Claire's Knee" is Eric Rohmer's best-known film.

| Original Score: A+ | Nov 23, 2014

Rohmer's playful work is both witty and observant.

| Original Score: A | Sep 24, 2009

Despite their constant chatter, the characters come alive without seeming too intellectual or too removed.

| Oct 18, 2008

One of Rohmer's greatest expressions of male-female relationships.

| Original Score: 3.4/4 | Nov 15, 2007

The film was rapturously received as a cinematic equivalent to Jane Austen at the time of its original release.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2005

The question at the center of this almost Shakespearean comedy is this: Why is it better to listen to our conscience in matters of love, rather than listen to our wayward, faithless heart?

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 15, 2005

Claire's Knee is a movie for people who still read good novels, care about good films, and think occasionally.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Rohmer somehow makes it work. He creates a feeling for his people, makes their seemingly silly conversations dramatic. His is a movie completely concerned with nuances.

| Nov 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 17, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2003

Touching and funny.

| May 24, 2003

Comes very close to being a perfect movie of its kind.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 20, 2003

Somewhere between insulting and repulsive, Claire's Knee purports to be about love but comes across as little more than infantile.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2003

Perhaps the director's best-known and best-liked film.

| Mar 10, 2003