My Night at Maud's | |
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Directed by | Éric Rohmer |
Written by | Éric Rohmer |
Produced by | Pierre Cottrell Barbet Schroeder |
Starring | Jean-Louis Trintignant Françoise Fabian Marie-Christine Barrault Antoine Vitez |
Cinematography | Néstor Almendros |
Edited by | Cécile Decugis |
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Distributed by | Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
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]