By Jonathan Romney At 88, Eric Rohmer, doyen of New Wave cinema, blends sex and sobriety in one of his most surprising films yet Film The Romance of Astrea and Celadon Eric Rohmer 107 MINS, 12A There are some films that not everyone will get.

By JONATHAN ROMNEY The directors of the French New Wave ignited a cinematic revolution - but five decades on, how do these ageing insurrectionaries practice what they preached? Did they know when they started out, the French directors of the New Wave, that they were in it for the long haul? Imagine a young, energetic, passionately cinephilic film-maker coming along today.

By KALEEM AFTAB Eric Rohmer is a writer who became a pioneer of modern French cinema. He tells KALEEM AFTAB his latest may be his last Eric Rohmer has always been the most discreet of film directors.

This is the kind of foreign film that gives foreign films a bad rap with a large percentage of the American public.

By Lee, Nathan From diving bells to red balloons: sizing up the 45th New York Film Festival's POV Is the 45th New York Film Festival more than the sum of its parts? With parts this good, does it matter? Still, the question is hard to shake.