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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 ...
Eric Rohmer’s “My Night at Maud’s” is about love, being a Roman Catholic, body language and the games people play. It is just about the best movie I’ve seen on all four subjects. It is also, a refreshingly intelligent movie: not that it’s ideological or academic (far from it) but that it is thoughtful, and reveals a deep knowledge ...
Aug 15, 2001 · Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a young engineer, spies his ideal woman at Sunday Mass. Francoise (Marie-Christine Barrault) is young, attractive, blonde, and, most importantly, a practicing Catholic. Before they have even met, Jean-Louis determines that Francoise will be his wife. His pursuit is interrupted, though, when he happens upon ...
In My Night at Maud’s, the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of the Six Moral Tales series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of 1960s cinema. A Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code and immerses himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Blaise Pascal. After spotting the delicate Françoise at Mass, he vows ...
- Jean-Louis, Françoise, Maud, Vidal
Full disclosure: I turned "My Night at Maud's" off after about 50 minutes. It gave me flashbacks to grad school and being trapped in conversation with pompous academics, and I had to escape. There are two prerequisites to enjoying "My Night at Maud's": 1.) A working knowledge of the philosophical premise known as Pascal's Wager (I googled it ...
Jan 23, 2024 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times My Night at Maud's is about love, being a Roman Catholic, body language and the games people play. It is just about the best movie I've seen ...
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Dec 22, 2017 · Eric Rohmer presents a fascinating, clever, and insightful film on principles, faith, and love in My Night at Maud’s, the third film (first full length feature) in Rohmer’s remarkable examination of morality in contemporary society, Six Moral Tales. Rohmer abandons reverse angles and panning shots in favor of filming individual characters through extended takes, composed of medium shots.
