Monday, May 12, 2014

My Night at Maud's

A 1960's French film - a little less than two hours but seemed like nay more.  The description sounded more exciting than the movie.  It was nominated as best foreign film when it came out.   As someone pointed out - it was a true Film Club type movie for showing and discussion.  Here's the description provided.......

It is the third film in Director Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales. In the "brilliantly accomplished" centerpiece of the series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays 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 but when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged.
Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (21 March 1920– 11 January 2010) was the last of the post-World War II, French New Wave directors to become established and he gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001.
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 and earned Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film. The black and white feature is not rated at a runtime of 117 min. In French with English subtitles.



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