Movies by French director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) will be screened at the Broadway Cinematheque in Nanshan District.

Rohmer was the last of the post-World War II French New Wave directors. He edited the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinema from 1957 to 1963, while most of his colleagues — among them Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut — were making the transition from critics to filmmakers.

Rohmer gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film “My Night at Maud’s” was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastian International Film Festival with “Claire’s Knee” in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for “The Green Ray” in 1986. Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival’s Career Golden Lion in 2001.

Rohmer’s films concentrate on intelligent, articulate protagonists who frequently fail to own up to their desires. The contrast between what they say and what they do fuels much of the drama in his films. Rohmer considered filmmaking to be “closer to the novel — to a certain classical style of novel which the cinema is now taking over — than the other forms of entertainment, like the theater.”

‘A Summer’s Tale’ (1996)

Plot: A shy math graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to another young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in a territory new to him.

Time: 7:40 p.m., Dec. 30; 5:40 p.m., Jan. 9

Subtitles: Chinese, English

‘The Green Ray’ (1986)

Plot: It’s July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and “empty,” but this won’t last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Dec. 31, Jan. 11

Subtitles: Chinese

‘Autumn Tale’ (1998)

Plot: A widow’s best friend tries to find her a new husband, but the advertisement posted in the newspaper attracts more than one possibility.

Time: 2 p.m., Jan. 2, 10

Subtitles: Chinese

‘A Tale of Winter’ (1992)

Plot: Five years after losing touch with a summer fling, a woman has difficulty choosing between her two suitors.

Time: 4:10 p.m., Jan. 2, 10

Subtitles: Chinese

‘A Tale of Springtime’ (1990)

Plot: Jeanne is a philosophy teacher at the Lycee Jacques Brel; Natacha is a teenage classical pianist; Igor is Natacha’s art bureaucrat father and Eve is Jeanne’s lover. Gradually, among this foursome — three “family” members and a bemused and increasingly uncomfortable outsider — the tiniest gestures assume momentous significance.

Time: 2:30 p.m., Jan. 3; 3:30 p.m., Jan. 9

Subtitles: Chinese

‘The Girl at the Monceau Bakery’ and ‘Suzanne’s Career’ (1963)

Plot: Two companion shorts from Rohmer, who returns to the subject of well-intentioned people tested by the restrictions of sexual monogamy and emotional constancy. “The Girl at the Monceau Bakery” finds a young man falling in love with an unattainable woman while sublimating his desires in the company of a bakery clerk. In “Suzanne’s Career,” two male friends fall in love with the same woman.

Time: 4:50 p.m., Jan. 3, 2021

Subtitles: Chinese

‘The Collector’ (1967)

Plot: A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 5, 2021

Subtitles: Chinese, English

‘My Night at Maud’s’ (1969)

Plot: The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stand with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsized personality.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 6, 2021

Subtitles: Chinese, English

‘Claire’s Knee’ (1970)

Plot: During a lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted old man is dared to flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat’s daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 7, 2021

Subtitles: Chinese, English

‘Chloe in the Afternoon’ (1972)

Plot: Though a bourgeois man has an adoring wife, he is still tempted to pursue other women.

Time: 7:30 p.m., Jan. 8, 2021

Subtitles: Chinese, English

Venue: Broadway Cinematheque, the MixC World, Nanshan District (南山区万象天地深圳百老汇电影中心)

Metro: Line 1 to Hi-tech Park Station (高新园站), Exit A(SD News)