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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.
Mar 22, 1970 · 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.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Éric Rohmer
- 1970-03-22
A classic film by Eric Rohmer about a Catholic man's night-long conversation with a divorced woman. Ebert praises the subtlety, intelligence and humanity of the dialogue and the direction.
After a conversation about love and philosophy, the chaste Jean-Louis spends the night at Maud's place, conflicted about what he desires.
- (24)
- Éric Rohmer
- PG
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
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.
- Jean-Louis, Françoise, Maud, Vidal
A 1969 French film by Eric Rohmer about a Catholic engineer who faces a moral dilemma after spending a night with a divorcée. Watch the trailer, read the synopsis, and explore the themes and context of this classic drama.
Éric Rohmer’s third of his six moral tales, My Night at Maud’s, concerns a Catholic man, Jean-Louis, who lives life practising a philosophy based on rationalisation and mathematical probability. At church, he falls in love with a beautiful young girl and vows she will be his wife.
