Love in the Afternoon (L’Amour, l’après-midi, 1972), directed by Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer on “intellectual cinema” and film form R.E. – But even if your films reflect a form of intellectualism that exists in reality, don’t you think they appeal only to a limited category of people capable of understanding them? E.R. – It is true that they appeal to a smaller category of people than the category of those who watch detective films, action films, war films, or westerns. With equal success, my films