I’ve always had a thing for the movies of Eric Rohmer, the French filmmaker and critic, considered one of the founders of the Nouveau Vague (the French New Wave) and the director of more than 50 films, including Claire’s Knee and My Night at Maud’s.

I especially loved the films Pauline at the Beach, Full Moon in Paris, The Aviator’s Wife, Le Rayon Vert. About a series of films he called “Six Moral Tales,” Rohmer once said, “What I call a conte moral is not a tale with a moral, but a story which deals less with what people do than what is going on in their minds while they are doing it. . . .

“The people in my films are not expressing abstract ideas – there is no ‘ideology’ in them, or very little – but revealing what they think about relationships between men and women, about friendship, love, desire, their conception of life.”

Some find his films unbearably slow and talky. But I never did.

He died yesterday at the age of 89.