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...four-character film, the plot is convoluted. Jereme, an about-to-be-married diplomat vacationing in Annecy, by chance meets with an old writer friend, Aurora. She is living with a twice-married Frenchwoman and her two daughters in their bourgeois summer home, while trying to find some incident to spark her writing talent. Jerome mentions to her that he is getting married out of convenience; he's lived with his Lucinde (the picture shown is of a young Jeanne Moreau) at various times in the last six years without losing pleasure in her and as he no longer enjoys...
...year-old Laura, claiming his pleasure is only the voyeuristic one the audience is gaining. After a brief flirtation, in which little more is established than the romantic idealism of the young, Jerome drops his dalliance with Laura, but begins to find her sister Claire desirable. Telling Aurora that he is a lead character in a play of his own devising, he becomes attracted to Claire's knee; when he finally caresses it, all his desires are consummated. He leaves Annocy feeling that he will now be able to control his desires without denying their existence, as he had before...
...Claire's Knee, Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), a 35-year-old diplomat, is about to marry his longtime inamorata. Before the wedding he makes a nostalgic trip to provincial Annecy, where he spent his boyhood holidays. There he meets an old friend, Novelist Aurora (Aurora Cornu) and two jeunes filles en fleur, Laura (Beatrice Romand) and Claire (Laurence de Monaghan...
...mandarin tact edges Claire's Knee close to philosophy. The acting reminds one of water spiders, which manage to stay on the surface by never being still enough to sink. Nestor Almendros' photography, with its floating summer vistas, is Proust's Combray come to life. When Aurora suggests that Jerome has become one of her fictions, he seems so, obeying impulses that originate from a mind...
...Aurora...