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  1. 110 minutes. Country. France. Language. French. My Night at Maud's (French: Ma nuit chez Maud), also known as My Night with Maud (UK), is a 1969 French New Wave drama film by Éric Rohmer. It is the third film (fourth in order of release) in his series of Six Moral Tales. Over the Christmas break in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, the film ...

  2. Aug 15, 2001 · My second viewing of Ma Nuit Chez Maud allowed me much greater sympathy for Jean-Louis, whose conflicted longings for both piety and sensuality are entrenched in human nature. The film is visually beautiful; my second viewing was on a larger screen which revealed the exquisite detail of the mis-en-scene.

  3. My Night At Maud’s is the story of a perfectly bourgeois 34-year-old engineer, recently converted to Catholicism, who struggles to live out the call of his newfound spirituality confronted with philosophical challenges and temptations of a more immediate kind. Hip late-sixties audiences who expected the Mass which opens the film to be subverted for comic effect were confounded when the ...

  4. Original French title: Ma nuit chez Maud What happens during My Night at Maud's(1969) may not be exactly what you would expect. Jean-Louis is an engineer who moves out to the provinces. A devout Catholic, he is at Mass one day when an attractive woman catches his attention but he's not able to meet her.

    • Eric Rohmer, Pierre Grimberg
    • Jean-Louis Trintignant
  5. Apr 4, 2010 · Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud’s, 1969) is Eric Rohmer’s third in the sequence of the ‘Six Moral Tales’, though chronologically it follows La collectionneuse (1967), which is numbered as the fourth but came out two years earlier.

    • Constantine Santas
  6. The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis ...

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  8. My Night at Maud's: Directed by Éric Rohmer. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez. A devout Catholic man's rigid principles are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

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