Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

nachtturne A fine piece of the French art cinema, La collectionneuse tells a story of three individuals (Adrien, Haydee and Daniel) locked together in their common friends weekend house at the French Riviera. While Adriens and Daniels purpose is simply but strictly doing the capital Nothing, Haydee lives quite a bohemian life, going out and changing partners every night. At first, the boys don't care about Haydee, except finding her an annoyance, but shortly they include her in their inner circle. Soon the drama begins: Haydee tries her best to seduce Adrien, who is knowingly resisting her, fearing that she just want to add him to her collection of trophies, which would be shameful. At the same time however, Adrien lusts after the girl. A set of mind games unfold, with the two people pushing and pulling eachother, waiting for their prey to show its weak spot, so they can emerge victoriously in the end.The movie was very entertaining; I'm not sure if I ever saw such honest sexual chemistry on screen before. And not just that: all the characters work very well with eachother in every sequence. The actors are great, the writing is smart and sharp (with a deal of great one-liners), although sometimes the plot felt a bit dragged. The camera work is incredibly well done, especially for a '60s movie. Despite the tense nature of the main subject (how a relationship forms between two people), the movie feels very light - I guess it has to do with the characters "I dont give a damn"-mentality, which was well shown through their actions. The reason I'm giving 8 stars: while the movie was very entertaining, I don't feel like it had any real impact on me. I don't believe it should have, though.Overall, La Collectionneuse is an excellent movie to watch with that Art Student girl you've been chatting with on Tinder for three days now.

Hitchcoc I really appreciate the comments of other reviewer in helping me sort out the reasons I like Rohmer's "Moral Tales," even though I cannot identify positively with the players. Of course, that is what it is all about. When one cannot "pull for" someone, and must listen to the pretentious verbiage, it would be easy to dismiss such films. Here we have several characters who are either incredibly cynical or hedonistic. Haydee provides a true match for the two young men who seem to have an incredible amount of time on their hands. One could say that it's remarkable that they seem moneyed when their personalities are so caustic. Our narrator is a tall handsome man who once again has what he considers an unattainable "moral code." Haydee is sultry and cute and steals every scene she is in. She could easily be done in by the barbs tossed at her, but, ultimately, he is her own person and ultimately makes the decisions. Most would have been intimidated by the two asses at the summer house. She rolls along. Rohmer does some amazing close-ups to show the emotions in the faces of his characters. Quite a masterful film.

Howard Schumann In The Collector, the first feature-length film of the Six Moral Tales series, mind-games, strategies, and overt manipulation thwart the possibility of satisfying relationships. The 54-minute film is beautifully photographed and has an elegance, charm, and wit that bears favorable comparison with his more acclaimed works. Adrien (Patrick Bauchau), an art dealer, and Daniel (Daniel Pommereulle), a painter spend the summer in a house on the French Riviera. Also vacationing there is Haydee (Haydee Politoff), an elegant but rather aloof young woman who sleeps with many boys in the area and has earned the title of "collectionneuse", a collector of men. Adrien, smug and self-centered in a charming sort of way, is interested in Haydee but tells himself that her promiscuity is a trick for him to seduce her and he refuses.The summer turns into a love triangle with Adrien convincing Daniel to pursue Haydee to ease the pressure of his own conflict between his rationalizing intellect and his passions. In the moral scheme of things, Haydee may represent the sexual revolution of the 60s and Adrien that of traditional morality, yet the film takes no sides, presenting the issues without judging the characters and giving us much to think about. The Collector is perhaps the most philosophical of the six but in the end the pursuit without passion leads to a feeling of emptiness and missed opportunities. Like most of Rohmer's films, there are no peak dramatic moments or confrontations, just everyday life elevated into art.

barberoux `La Collectionneuse' was not my favorite of Rohmer's moral tales. I had a problem with the two male leads, not their acting but the characters they portrayed. I thought they were self-indulgent, rather shallow, bores. Haydee was the only one with some life in her. I saw the story as a conflict between Haydee's doing something lifestyle and the inward looking lethargy of the two male leads. God they were bores. This moral tale is hardly worth seeing.