Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
(My Night at Maud's)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 110m
Director: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis:
An engineer working in Clermont finds his attitudes to finding a perfect partner and his social aloofness challenged one night when an old college friend introduces him to an attractive divorcee.
Review:
The fourth of Rohmer's six moral tales is a crucial film in his oeuvre, and his last in black and white. His characteristic irony is of course directed at the Catholic Jean-Louis, clinging to his reading of Blaise Pascal for the mathematical certainties it appears to offer. His steadfast adherence to the unknown quantity of Francoise, just because she goes to church on Sunday, is torpedoed by his evident attraction for Maud. In order not to be frustrated by his eventual decision, one must relax and enjoy the characters' capacity for self-deception, and the playing of Fabian and Trintignant.
(My Night at Maud's)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 110m
Director: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis:
An engineer working in Clermont finds his attitudes to finding a perfect partner and his social aloofness challenged one night when an old college friend introduces him to an attractive divorcee.
Review:
The fourth of Rohmer's six moral tales is a crucial film in his oeuvre, and his last in black and white. His characteristic irony is of course directed at the Catholic Jean-Louis, clinging to his reading of Blaise Pascal for the mathematical certainties it appears to offer. His steadfast adherence to the unknown quantity of Francoise, just because she goes to church on Sunday, is torpedoed by his evident attraction for Maud. In order not to be frustrated by his eventual decision, one must relax and enjoy the characters' capacity for self-deception, and the playing of Fabian and Trintignant.
(My Night at Maud's)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 110m
Director: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Synopsis:
An engineer working in Clermont finds his attitudes to finding a perfect partner and his social aloofness challenged one night when an old college friend introduces him to an attractive divorcee.
Review:
The fourth of Rohmer's six moral tales is a crucial film in his oeuvre, and his last in black and white. His characteristic irony is of course directed at the Catholic Jean-Louis, clinging to his reading of Blaise Pascal for the mathematical certainties it appears to offer. His steadfast adherence to the unknown quantity of Francoise, just because she goes to church on Sunday, is torpedoed by his evident attraction for Maud. In order not to be frustrated by his eventual decision, one must relax and enjoy the characters' capacity for self-deception, and the playing of Fabian and Trintignant.