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My Night with Maud (1969)
Director: Eric Rohmer
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From Time Out Film Guide
The third in Rohmer's series of 'Moral Tales' (though shot out of sequence after La Collectionneuse) was the film that sealed his international reputation. Exquisitely shot by Nestor Almendros in a chill and wintry Clermont-Ferrand, it tells - lightly, wittily and amazingly perceptively - of the long night of the soul of a Catholic engineer (Trintignant), smugly secure in his acceptance of Pascal's wager (it pays to believe in God, because if you win, you win eternity; if you lose, you lose nothing), who makes up his mind he is going to marry a girl (Barrault) he has seen only in church. His philosophy comes in for a rude shaking up during the teasing, tantalising, and ultimately chaste night he spends with the free-thinking divorcee Maud (Fabian), who opens his eyes to the fact that 'a choice can be heartbreaking'. Still one of Rohmer's best films.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Eric Rohmer
Producer: Pierre Cottrell
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Anne Dubot, P Guy Léger full cast
Duration: 113 mins
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