Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This definitive biography vividly captures Rohmer's life and achievements. Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe detail Rohmer's close communication with his contemporaries and competitors as well as his voracious appetite for art, culture, and debate. De Baecque and Herpe open the door to Rohmer's world by treating the reader as an interlocutor to whom they are excitedly relaying delightful nuggets from the life of "le grand Momo": that time he and an actress ate cookies and listened to Tahitian music in pious silence (p. 343); the other time when the American comedian Chris Rock remade his film Chloe in the Afternoon (p. 257). In other words, reading Éric Rohmer: A Biography feels like having a long conversation--a nourishing and satisfying one.