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My Night at Maud's

1969 · 1h 50m · GP Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by Éric Rohmer

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The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

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Still one of Rohmer's best films.

Tom Milne, Time Out
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The film is beautifully played, that is, as written, which is almost as if it were music.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

Eric Rohmer's droll and delicate comedy of language.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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