My Night at Maud's
by Eric Rohmer
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Actor: Antoine Vitez, Fran?oise Fabian, Jean-Louis Trintignant, L?onide Kogan, Marie-Christine BarraultDirector: Eric Rohmer
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Original recording reissued, Subtitled
Running Time: 110 minutes
Release Date: 1996-04-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Studio: Fox Lorber
VHS Movie Reviews of My Night at Maud's
Movie Review: The Logic of Love
Summary: 4 Stars
I was a bit unprepared for what I saw in "My Night at Maud's" (I had anticipated a more festive movie under the mistaken pretense that "Maud's" was a night club). I admit to easing into the extended philosophical discussion of love and similar relationships. I also found myself enjoying the subtle and not so subtle hypocracy of the participants. However, this is a comedy in the Shakepearean mode; i.e you may be amused but it's unlikely you'll laugh. Fair enough, I took it for the candid look at life, love and faith it presented. I believe that Eric Rohmer's theory is that we can profess to be as open and frank as possible but we still know what to keep to ourselves. It's a bit heavy in its' dialogue in case you're looking for some lighter entertainment. However, it's strength is it's dialogue so pay attention and enjoy it. Movie Review: Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'Ma nuit chez Maud.'
Summary: 4 Stars
?ric Rohmer (1920) challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, Six Moral Tales ("Contes moraux"). Inspired by F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, each "tale" follows the same basic story: a man is tempted a woman, but he ultimately resists the temptation.
My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (1969)--the third tale in the series, but the fourth to be filmed, has been called "the centerpiece" of Rohmer's Moral Tales. Filmed in stark black and white, it follows deep philosophic conversations about love and religion between a pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant), and a young brunette divorc?e, Maud (Fran?oise Fabian)--a seductive freethinker who challenges Jean-Louis' rigid ethical standards. An Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival, Rohmer achieved international recognition with this brilliant film.
G. Merritt
Movie Review: The head vs. the heart
Summary: 5 Stars
Eric Rohmer's intelligent look at the subject of principles vs. intuition. A mathemetician (Jean-Louis) meets an old school chum (Vidal), a philosopher, and they begin a conversation about Pascal and mind over heart and faithfulness. The conversation continues at Vidal's girlfriend's (Maud) house.
Suddenly our mathemetician is left alone with the Maud, and she invites him to spend the night with her. He accepts but is determined not to sleep with her to maintain his priciples, and in a very funny scene he's successful. After a while he marries Francoise; 5 years later he meets Maud again and learns, by accident, that Francoise was once Maud's husband's lover.
Typical for a Rohmer film, not much happens, but there's lots of talk of a very high quality. But it's not JUST talk - Rohmer is skilled enough not to forget he's making a movie here. He is very on target as his characters explore the topics at hand. It's a very satisfying movie, well worth a watch.
Movie Review: Fourth opus: the supreme expression of good taste!
Summary: 5 Stars
Eric Rohmer' s artistic personality has been one of the most original and eloquent. Expressive sobriety supported by a high caliber humor sense. In this lovable and intelligent work, the seduction issue has never been treated, as an admirable exercise of seduction that links with the purest tradition of the French theater of old ages, plenty of irony, sarcasm and fine charm.
Indeed, the picture is extremely talky, and slow paved in consequence; Rohmer supports on an elegant and smart script plenty of fine intelligence; it's the art of the seduction in its highest order.
Movie Review: An unforgettable ending
Summary: 4 Stars
I must have watched this film at least twenty times--it never gets boring. A lot of talking in this film--if you don't know French, have fun reading the relentless subtitles. Interesting dialog about Pascal--the idea of fate, luck, wager. It serves as the film's allegory--gambling on a relationship with a person who is both sensual and pious. Can there be happiness in such a combination? One has to only take a chance. And even though you may think you found that special someone with both attributes, there's always a catch. And the catch in "...Maud's" is revealed at the end of the film--which is absolutely beautiful. The DVD is not as bad as some of the reviews here claim it to be--it's black and white, so with the exception of a couple of scenes with weak contrasts, I think it's an above average transfer. Heck, it's shot by Cuba's very own Oscar winner Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven).
Summary of My Night at Maud's
French director Eric Rohmer, former critic and Cahiers du Cinema editor, created a very special romantic film series around the difficult choices men make when they fall in love with two women called "Six Moral Tales." My Night at Maud's was the third entry, and it was so well received in 1969 that it gave Rohmer international prominence. To this day, it remains Rohmer's masterpiece, a brilliantly insightful and sublime meditation on adult indiscretions. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a chaste engineer who thinks he's met his soul mate in church (Marie-Christine Barrault), yet winds up accidentally spending the night with the seductive Maud (Francoise Fabian), who is more his intellectual equal. Filmed in stark black and white by Nestor Almendros, this is one of those rare films in which questions about philosophy translate into unexpected answers about the heart. It's slow and methodical, but well worth the experience. --Bill DesowitzFrench Video
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