My Night at Maud's

1969 1h 50m FR

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7.6

BANGER

★7.6TMDB · 370

RomanceComedyDrama

Synopsis

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Devout Roman Catholic Jean-Louis subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of 17th-century physicist Blaise Pascal. When he spots a pretty girl at church, he promises to one day marry her. But then an old friend introduces him to alluring divorcee Maud. After a conversation about love and credo, the chaste Jean-Louis spends the night at Maud's, conflicted about his desires.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis
Françoise Fabian
Maud
Marie-Christine Barrault
Françoise
Antoine Vitez
Vidal
Leonid Kogan
Concert Violinist
Guy Léger
Priest
Anne Dubot
Blonde Friend
Marie Becker
Marie (uncredited)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Éric Rohmer
Writers: Éric Rohmer
Languages: French
Countries: France

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ERA

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57 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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CRAFT

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Part of the "Six Moral Tales" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 7

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Éric Rohmer, shot by Néstor Almendros. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Cécile Decugis shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Jean-Louis Trintignant and Françoise Fabian and Marie-Christine Barrault carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0064612 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Éric Rohmer directs. Néstor Almendros behind the camera. Cécile Decugis cuts. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

157 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Part of the "Six Moral Tales" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Éric Rohmer, shot by Néstor Almendros. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Cécile Decugis shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Jean-Louis Trintignant and Françoise Fabian and Marie-Christine Barrault carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0064612 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 17 themes, including "france", "philosophy", "bachelor", "mathematics".
9Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Néstor Almendros
Editing: Cécile Decugis
Production design: Nicole Rachline
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Status: Released
Original language: FR
IMDB: My Night at Maud's (1969)

Part of

Six Moral Tales

Six brief affairs of the mind, from one of cinema's great moral philosophers, Éric Rohmer spent the 1960s and early '70s turning his ideas about cinema into film with this septet of stories about temptation and self-deception. Each installment follows a man already committed to one woman who finds himself drawn to another, only to talk himself back to the first — Rohmer's interest lying less in what his characters do than in the elaborate reasoning they use for justification. Shot with an understated, naturalistic eye and narrated in a wry first-person, the films move from the two black-and-white shorts that open the series to the lush, seasonal features that follow, cementing Rohmer as one of the New Wave's most distinct and influential voices.