Preceded by short Place de l'Etoile.

(Le Signe du lion). Rohmer's first feature is a powerful study of contemporary isolation. A young musician waits for an inheritance from a relative. It is summer, and all his friends have left Paris. Alone and penniless, he spends his summer as a tramp, sleeping on the banks of the Seine. We see a Paris transformed by summer heat, American tourists, and his own marginal position. "Eric Rohmer is...the first genuine exponent of what might be called 'the cinema of pure behavior'.... (This film) shows its originality in portraying the friction set up between a human being and society, his wearing down, his slow degradation. This is not a descriptive but a rigorously visual art." (Louis Marcorelles, Sight & Sound, 1960)Place de l'Etoile, Rohmer's contribution to the 1965 New Wave compilation film Paris vu par (Six in Paris), deals with a punctilious haberdasher who accidentally hurts another man and spends a terrible week afraid he has killed him. Written by Rohmer. Photographed by Nestor Almendros. With Jean-Michel Rouzière. (c. 15 mins, In French with English subtitles, B&W, 35mm, From New Yorker)