Stills from A TRIP TO THE MOON

Georges Melies, the magician turned filmmaker who constructed a glass house in which to form his movie studio, churned out hundreds of films, and achieved some of the greatest innovations in early cinema. His 1902 film, A TRIP TO THE MOON, still the best-known of his films, delivers backdrops of painted sets, criss-crossed tableaus, a rocket taking the Man in the moon's eye out, and men in suits  jumping up and down as space aliens. Melies's cuts are something like jump-cuts: they take us from one action to another, they allow people to disappear and reappear in clouds of smoke.

The Bakery Girl of Monceau

So much more here, first of which Rohmer's ability to humanize but also to demonize. Once all are deemed equal they can really be disseminated. Freud spoke of how God's equal love was incorrect in its assumption that everyone deserves it. Love seems to be in Rohmer that which is divided out for different specific people