Claire's Knee (1970) - Los Feliz

Next random movie is Claire's Knee, at the Los Feliz 3.

This is a late French New Wave film, directed by Éric Rohmer, and so it is the first stereotypical incomprehensible arthouse film chosen, the kind of film you are afraid of when you hear the phrase "indie film".

The movie starts at 7:00.

Here's a description and link for tickets:

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“Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, Laura’s long-legged, blonde stepsister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly instigates Jerôme’s moral crisis and creates both one of French cinema’s most enduring moments and what has become the iconic image of Rohmer’s Moral Tales.

https://www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/claires-knee-07-15-2026

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I will arrive and hang out a bit before entering. My cell is 310-227-1719.