They arrive at the flat of Maud, a paediatrician who is recently divorced. Every Film in The Criterion Collection I Have Seen (So Far), Films that didn't really change my life but amused and inspired me, List of countries by number of bolded films, List of directors by number of bolded films. The same can be said of Françoise, the blonde, who re-enters the film and Jean-Louis’s life: she’s more than she appears. Your 2013 in film – Post your favorites of the movies you DISCOVERED last year, Top 100 Films as Voted by RYMers [2013 Edition], Top Films of the 1960s as voted for by RYM. 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. She gets naked and suggests that Jean-Louis join her under the covers. © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. Just before meeting Maud's friends, he sees the blonde girl from the church and, much encouraged in his dealings with women by his night with Maud, boldly introduces himself. Gripping from beginning to end. [3], It was Rohmer's first successful film both commercially and critically. ... We are grateful to Eric Rohmer for his haughty, if a little outdated, austerity. Eric Rohmer’s 1969 work, a decade into his slow mutation from Cahiers critic to director, made his name outside of France and preceded such enduring works as ‘Pauline at the Beach’ and ‘The Green Ray’. Don't get in arguments with people here, or start long discussions. On the walk with Maud he is much more forward with her, to the point where she has to restrain him. She says she has remarried, but it is not a success. To rate, slide your finger across the stars from left to right. ‘My Night with Maud’ offers both in spades, although those familiar with Rohmer’s breezier but no less inquiring 1980s films might be a little surprised by the rigour and bookishness of this wintry, black-and-white work (the crisp photography of Clermont-Ferrand at Christmas is especially striking). They also talk about a topic the bachelor Pascal did not cover – love between men and women. This is absolutely, unquestionably not my type of movie. Classical, rigorous in every way. If it isn't clear within Maud who actually is making the wager and whether or not they win or lose, that only enlarges the idea of "le pari" ("the bet") into the encompassing metaphor that Rohmer wants for the entire series. He’s lived in Canada and Chile, enjoyed a few girlfriends, but now he’s single, serious and more committed to his religion and future. The extremely long takes, the squared up camera angles, the almost-impossibly precise language, the serious and lengthy weaving of intellectual concerns into everyday conversation (Woody Allen would do well to replace Bergman with Rohmer for his guiding muse), the absolute refusal to tell the audience what to think via soundtrack. Keep your comments focused on the film. I mean the opposite of a talkative film where the text would be used to fill the gaps: that is to say, a work in which eloquent silences are felt as lack of understanding about both is constant." Use the boards for extended discussion. The conversations are directly inspired by the 1965 television show The Talk on Pascal, which was made by Rohmer and included a similar debate between Brice Parain and Dominican Father Dominique Dubarle. Don't use this space to complain about the average rating, chart position, genre voting, others' reviews or ratings, or errors on the page. I don't think this aged well. The theater, or the conference would have better served the purpose of the authors, because such controversies have nothing photogenic, apart from the presence of the beautiful Françoise Fabian and that very good actor Jean-Louis Trintignant." Don't comment just to troll/provoke. Thanks for subscribing! Vidal, who had hoped to stay, leaves. Jean-Louis is at first reluctant but eventually agrees to go. They agree to attend mass together, as Vidal's friend will not be available until after midnight. After the church service she admits that the cloud between them is because she has been having an affair with a married man. My Night with Maud (Ma nuit chez Maud) (1969) Film, Drama. Very quiet, precise, deliberate, incredible ambience. In the morning, before they go to church, she refuses to kiss him. All rights reserved. As they are now both happy together, they decide not to bring up the subject again. One of the main themes concerns Pascal's Wager, which Jean-Louis and Maud discuss. 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The bulk of the movie is a conversation between 2 people and to be honest, this just isn't my thing. Ariane Beauvillard. Sounds severe. Ma nuit chez Maud / My Night at Maud’s (1969) Eric Rohmer, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Comedy, Drama, Romance February 3, 2018 The narrator (Jean-Louis), a devout Catholic, moves to a provincial town and vows to marry Francoise, a pretty blond he notices at mass. By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Films without too much going on, but with dialogue you can't stop listening to... Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique (CFDC), Les Films du Losange, FFD, Les Films de la Pléiade, Les Films des deux mondes, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions de la Guéville, Renn Productions, Simar Films, Société Française de Production, Two World Entertainment. Initially hurt, Maud gets over the rejection and invites him to join her later for a walk in the snow with friends. Find Ma Nuit chez Maude - My Night at Maud’s schedule, reviews and photos. It is the third film (fourth in order of release) in his series of Six Moral Tales. This film ranked #43 in Time Out's list of the 100 greatest French films. Click here to see the full list. Ma nuit chez Maud followed, and the series concluded with Le Genou de Claire (1970) and L'Amour l'après-midi (1972). We already have this email. Try another. Moja noć kod Maud (francuski Ma nuit chez Maud) francuski je dramski film iz 1969. koji je režirao i napisao Éric Rohmer.Glavne uloge tumače Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault i Antoine Vitez.Radnja se odvija oko religioznog mladića koji upozna slobodoumnu ženu, Maud, koja promijeni njegovo razmišljanje. However, because the film takes place on Christmas Eve, Rohmer wanted to shoot the film on and around that day. The discussions and actions of the four continually refer to the thoughts of Blaise Pascal on mathematics, on ethics and on human existence. o; Cinema Claude Garson of L'Aurore said that "We do not underestimate the ambition of such a work, but we say right away that film, with its own laws, does not lend itself to such a subject. "[5] Its arthouse theater release in the US was so successful that it got a wider release in regular theaters.[3]. He follows her in his car, but she soon disappears and he bumps into Vidal (Antoine Vitez), an old friend and teacher at the local university. Instead, they go for a swim with their child. But Maud is more than just a foil: she’s a complex, alluring, smart character, an encapsulation of modern thinking with whom we sympathise as much as anyone else. As a result there is real tension, born of the consequences that detailed characters we care about make in the world. Yet when you add to all this the fantastic performances and electric chemistry of the two leads (Trintignant and Fabian), the film just flies by. AKA: My Night with Maud, My Night with Maud Six Moral Tales III: My Night at Maud's, Six Moral Tales III: My Night at Maud's, Ma nuit chez Maud. It really repeats itself a lot and there are better movies that explore these same topics but don't drag or go nowhere. The interpretation is brilliant. Vidal has plans to visit a friend the following evening and invites Jean-Louis to accompany him. Henry Chapier of Combat called it "a bit stiff and intellectual". Ma nuit chez Maud was to have been next but the director instead shot La Collectionneuse (1967), the fourth in the series and Rohmer's first excursion into colour. But, as ever, Rohmer gives us a playful slice of life which has the effortless air of reality and challenges us to think about life afresh. Ma nuit chez Maud est un film supérieurement intelligent et esthétiquement à la pointe de l’élégance. My Night at Maud's was made with funds raised by François Truffaut, who liked the script, and was initially intended to be the third "Moral Tale". MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD / MY NIGHT WITH MAUD / MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S - movie information from CITWF, the free on-line movie database covering over 507,364 movies from 175 countries Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant was not available; thus, filming was delayed for an entire year.[1]. Horribly pretentious as well. This film ranked #43 in Time Out's list of the 100 greatest French films. ?Vidal invites Jean-Louis for dinner at the flat of his sometime lover Maud (Françoise Fabian), a good-looking, liberal doctor who’s a divorcee and single mother. After the walk Jean-Louis tries his luck at the place where he met Françoise and she turns out to be there, about to return home. In an interview with long-time associate Barbet Schroeder not long before he died , Rohmer identified two traits in his films which he hoped he’d mastered: an easy naturalism and a willingness to present the discussion of ideas. Made me want to spontaneously attend a catholic mass. Director: Eric Rohmer. Talk was never cheap in Rohmer’s films; here, some knowledge of Pascal’s Wager and various tenets of Catholicism wouldn’t go amiss if you’re to gain the most from the characters’ intense chats about religion and atheism, chance and determinism, love and desire. The first 20 minutes are among my favorite openings to a film, ever. One man and one woman are Catholics, while the other man and woman are atheists. When Vidal leaves for the evening and encourages Jean-Louis to stay with Maud, there’s a brief will-they-won’t-they episode – but Rohmer is more interested in behaviour and motive than titillation. [8] It won the 1969 Prix Méliès. Three people in a room having a conversation I could give a rat's patootie about. Her name is Françoise and she agrees to see him in the church. When the film was released in France in 1969, it received mixed reviews. In the cafe he encounters Vidal, an old Marxist friend now a university lecturer, who invites him to a concert that evening. Attending a Catholic church, he sees a young blonde woman and without knowing anything about her is convinced that she will become his wife. It was screened and highly praised at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Prix Max Ophüls in France. He eventually does, keeping his clothes on. Hello :), before sunrise but, well, its french new wave, Can't believe Éric Rohmer invented leftcaths, "horribly pretentious as well" i don't think you know what that means. 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. Buy Ma Nuit chez Maude - My Night at Maud’s tickets from the official Ticketmaster.com site. Trintignant in particular is inspired casting, since his screen persona prior to this film wouldn't seem to have room in it for a lonely, brooding Catholic negotiating between his rather precise sense of what he thinks he wants and his more obvious attraction to a woman who doesn't meet his religious standards. Time Out says. When it's time to sleep she declares the bed she's in is the only bed. Don't post randomness/off-topic comments. Using Maud as a moral torch, he shines a light on Jean-Claude’s ideas. The three talk and drink, until Maud suggests that falling snow has made the drive to Jean-Louis' mountain village unsafe and he should stay. Be respectful! The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[6] and Best Original Screenplay[7] and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. Maud is gorgeous, and far more fulfilling imho. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Your 25 favorite leading actress performances? Jean Rochereau of La Croix called it "A masterpiece ... whose superb insolence toward everyone excites me and fills me." Films with challenging intellectual messages, Top 100 Films as Voted by RYMers [2014 Edition]. He did a lot of stuff in his life. Maud and Jean-Louis discuss religion and their love life. In the morning he resists her advances to make love. We meet Jean-Louis in church, on Christmas Eve, where he spies a young blonde, Françoise (Marie-Christine Barrault), who he determines to marry. It was released in the US and praised by critics there as well. All the community rules apply here. Si Rohmer n’existait pas, alors tout, ou presque, serait perdu. 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 … Jokes are fine, but don't post tactless/inappropriate ones. Ma nuit chez Maud [My Night at Maud's] is routinely noted as the third in Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales but the fourth made and released. Votes are used to help determine the most interesting content on RYM. He goes back with her to her student house and after a tea he can spend the night in a separate room. She makes herself comfortable in the double bed in the living room and reveals she divorced her husband because he had an affair with a catholic woman, all the while she herself had a lover who died in a car crash one year ago. Its more or less a philosophical movie that explores relationships, cheating, love, and faithfulness. However, Jean-Louis plans to attend mass. The title suggests some sort of saucy nocturnal encounter, but the truth is more austere, if no less captivating. After the concert they dine in a restaurant. Jean-Louis, a solitary and serious engineer, has taken a job in Clermont-Ferrand where he knows nobody. Guy Teisseire of L'Aurore wrote that "The best compliment we can pay Éric Rohmer is to have done with My Night at Maud's a talking film. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited. [4] James Monaco said that "Here, for the first time the focus is clearly set on the ethical and existential question of choice. "[2] Penelope Houston wrote that "this is a calm, gravely ironic, finely balanced film, an exceptionally graceful bit of screen architecture whose elegant proportioning is the more alluring because its symmetry doesn’t instantly hit the eye". Then he realizes that his wife's lover was Maud's husband. Jean de Baroncelli of Le Monde wrote that "It is a work that demands from the viewer a minimum of attention and complicity. By the way, Blaise Pascal was quite an interesting being. I'm pretty sure Rohmer knew that. So this is basically a 2 hour movie about a man cock blocking himself when an opportunity for a one night stand emerges. Movies that are filled with intellectual dialogue? Over the Christmas break in a French city, the film shows chance meetings and conversations between four single people, each knowing one of the other three. Afterwards, Jean-Louis confesses to Françoise that he came from Maud's bed on the morning he first met her but gives no specifics about what really happened. He offers to give her a ride home and learns that she's a biology postgraduate. Five years on, now married and on a beach with their child, the two meet Maud. Any spoilers should be placed in spoiler tags as such. Déjà vu! Likewise, don't respond to trollish comments; just report them and ignore them. Vidal is an atheist and Marxist who has less rigid ideas about love and marriage, and their chat allows Rohmer to explore various ideas relating to life, relationships and our place in the world before (or perhaps in the absence of) God.? In fact, I find this distinction rather slippery. Filmer le doute philosophique était aussi osé en 1969 qu’il le serait aujourd’hui. The themes of chance and Pascal would be examined by Rohmer in his 1992 film A Tale of Winter.
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