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La Collectionneuse is the third of director Eric Rohmer's "Six contes moraux" (six moral tales), and also the first of the series to attain full feature-length status (each of the first two entries, L... read more read more...a Boulangere de Monceau and La Carriere de la Suzanne, ran less than one hour). Patrick Bauchau plays a self-centered young man on summer holiday in the Mediterranean. He finds himself irresistibly attracted to Haydee (Haydee Politoff,) the aloof young woman who shares his St. Tropez villa. Haydee is a sexual libertine, a "collector of men" (hence the film's title), but she appears disinterested in Patrick. For his part, the hero assumes that the girl's promiscuity is deliberately calculated to prompt him to seduce her. Filmed in 1967, La Collectioneuse was released in the US in 1971, by which time the fourth of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, My Night at Maud's (69), had already debuted in America. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.

Directed by: Eric Rohmer

Release Date: January 1, 1966

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DVD Release Date: April 25, 2000

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Vincent Canby
May 9, 2005
Vincent Canby, New York Times

It's as if the film were a kind of living notebook for what Rohmer was to do later, with greater ease and refinement. Full Review

Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

Rohmer's impossibly light, graceful way of posing profound moral questions hasn't yet wholly coalesced, though this 1966 film does have his soft, slow rhythm. Full Review

Fernando F. Croce
November 16, 2009
Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

A translucent comedy of procrastination Full Review

November 15, 2007
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Almendros captures the beauty of Politoff and the scenery with an acute sense of detail. Full Review

Tom Milne
June 24, 2006
Tom Milne, Time Out

Wryly and delightfully witty. Full Review

Marjorie Baumgarten
March 10, 2003
Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

Rohmer delivers a study of self-rationalization at its finest. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
January 1, 2000
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The film radiates with the charms derived from so-called sophisticated pleasures and a sneaky sense of perversion. Full Review

Roger Ebert
May 18, 2012
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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Emanuel Levy
July 14, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Philip Martin
July 29, 2002
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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