Rummaging through his files and cross-ruled notebooks for the spark that inspired a particular film, comparing successive accounts of the same script, projecting screen tests on his office wall filmed in Super 8, in short substantiating what he says at every turn, Eric Rohmer opens up in this revealing documentary portrait.

A patriarch of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer was editor of Cahiers du Cinema, and is the director of such classic films as Claire's Knee, Chloe in the Afternoon and My Night at Maud's. For over five decades, Rohmer has created sumptuous and eloquent films that explore the terrain between love and morality, producing intelligent and witty meditations on the tenderness of human emotions and the wondrousness of life.

ERIC ROHMER: WITH SUPPORTING EVIDENCE is a rare and insightful portrait of one of cinema's most enduring and influential filmmakers. Supplemented by film clips, screen tests, and snippets of audio dialogue from his films, Rohmer elaborates on the technical, philosophical and aesthetic aspects of film and filmmaking - all the while aligning and distancing himself from his contemporaries, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol and Francois Truffaut.

"Highly Recommended! An excellent insight into Rohmer the man and Rohmer the auteur [and] a unique look at a director who makes his own films his own way, without compromise..."—Educational Media Reviews Online