Ditto. Triple Agent is a strong and accomplished film, but it's a world away from Rohmer's work in a contemporary setting.
All of the period films of Rohmer's I've seen have an extreme formality in their presentation and performances that is quite a shock after the naturalism of his contemporary films. I'm not sure whether Rohmer sees extreme formality in social relations as representative of earlier times (and thus this might be just another kind of naturalism), or whether he's consciously adopting a diametrically opposed style for these films.
I'd recommend The Lady and the Duke as a good entry point for that side of Rohmer's work. It's a pretty amazing film that looks and feels like no other. Getting back to the topic of visual effects, in this film (as in Triple Agent, in a way, with its recurring newsreels) he uses the available visual imagery of the time to recreate the world of his characters. In the case of Lady and the Duke, the visual resource in question is oil paintings, so his characters are digitally integrated into painted landscapes.
All of the period films of Rohmer's I've seen have an extreme formality in their presentation and performances that is quite a shock after the naturalism of his contemporary films. I'm not sure whether Rohmer sees extreme formality in social relations as representative of earlier times (and thus this might be just another kind of naturalism), or whether he's consciously adopting a diametrically opposed style for these films.
I'd recommend The Lady and the Duke as a good entry point for that side of Rohmer's work. It's a pretty amazing film that looks and feels like no other. Getting back to the topic of visual effects, in this film (as in Triple Agent, in a way, with its recurring newsreels) he uses the available visual imagery of the time to recreate the world of his characters. In the case of Lady and the Duke, the visual resource in question is oil paintings, so his characters are digitally integrated into painted landscapes.
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