Foreword to French Edition
1. The Critical Years - Interview with Eric Rohmer Jean Narboni
Part I. The Classical Age of Cinema Cinema: 2. The art of space
3. For a talking cinema
4. The romance is gone
5. Reflections on color
6. The classical age of cinema
7. Such vanity is painting
8. Isou or Things As They Are?
Of three films and of a certain school Of taste and colors
The taste for Beauty Letter to a critic - Concerning my moral tales
9. Film and the three levels of discourse?
Part II. For an unpure cinema Andre Bazin's 'Summa': 10. Lesson of a failure - Moby Dick John Houston
11. Explanation of a vet - South Pacific Joshua Logan Faith and mountains - Les Etoiles de Midi Marchel Ichac
12. The photogenics of sport
Alfred Hitchcock: 13. Vertigo IV. Jean Renoir
14. The American Renoir Elena and Her Man (Venus and the Apes)
15. Renoir's youth
16. The Little Theater of Jean Renoir
17. Filmgraphy of Rohmer films
Index.