My Night at Maud's

My Night at Maud's
Theatrical release poster
Directed byÉric Rohmer
Written byÉric Rohmer
Produced byPierre Cottrell
Barbet Schroeder
StarringJean-Louis Trintignant
Françoise Fabian
Marie-Christine Barrault
Antoine Vitez
CinematographyNéstor Almendros
Edited byCécile Decugis
Production
company
Distributed byCompagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique
Release dates
  • 15 May 1969 (1969-05-15)
(Cannes)
  • 4 June 1969 (1969-06-04)
(France)
  • March 22, 1970 (1970-03-22)
(United States)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

My Night at Maud's (French: Ma nuit chez Maud), also known as My Night with Maud (UK), is a 1969 French New Wave drama film by Éric Rohmer. It is the third film (fourth in order of release) in his series of Six Moral Tales.

Over the Christmas break in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand, the film shows chance meetings and conversations between four single people, each knowing one of the other three. One man and one woman are Catholics, while the other man and woman are atheists. The discussions and actions of the four continually refer to the thoughts of Blaise Pascal (who was born in Clermont-Ferrand) on mathematics, on ethics and on human existence. They also talk about a topic the bachelor Pascal did not cover – love between men and women.[1]

  1. ^ Santas, Constantine (2000-07-18). "Choice and Chance: A Dialectic of Morality and Romance in Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's – Senses of Cinema". Retrieved 2023-12-30.