Synopsis
In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife, although when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged. A breakout hit in the United States, My Night at Maud’s was one of the most influential and talked-about films of the decade.
Cast
| Jean-Louis | Jean-Louis Trintignant |
| Françoise | Marie-Christine Barrault |
| Maud | Françoise Fabian |
| Vidal | Antoine Vitez |
Credits
| Director | Eric Rohmer |
| Producer | Barbet Schroeder and Pierre Cottrell |
| Cinematography | Nestor Almendros, Emmanuel Machuel, Jean-Claude Gasché and Philippe Rousselot |
| Sound | Jean-Pierre Ruh, Jacques Maumont and Alain Sempé |
| Set decoration | Nicole Rachline |
| Editing | Cécile Decugis and Christine Lecouvette |
| Production managers | Alfred de Graaff and Pierre Grimberg |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Eric Rohmer
- On Pascal, (1965), directed by Rohmer for the educational TV series En profil dans le texte
- A 1974 episode of the French television program Télécinéma, featuring interviews with star Jean-Louis Trintignant, film critic Jean Douchet, and producer Pierre Cottrell
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
From the Current
My Night at Maud’s: Chances Are . . .
by Aug 14, 2006“Some people think Rohmer is in league with the devil,” wrote cinematographer nestor almendros in his book of autobiographical reflections on the cinema, a man with a camera. He was describing his working experience on My Night at Maud's (1969). “Months before, he had scheduled the exact . . .
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