My Night at Maud's

Name: My Night at Maud's
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Released: 1969-06-04
Duration: 1 h 50 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Leonid Kogan

Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)

Timing: 1:50 (110 min)

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Release date

1969-06-04

Country

France

Production

Renn Productions, Les Films du Losange, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Films de la Pléiade, Les Productions de la Guéville, SFP, Two World Entertainment, FFD, Les Films des deux mondes, Simar Films

Genre

Romance, Comedy, Drama

Budget

Box office

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Director

Éric Rohmer

Actors

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Leonid Kogan, Guy Léger, Anne Dubot, Marie Becker, Marie-Claude Rauzier
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Scenario

Éric Rohmer

Producer

Barbet Schroeder, Pierre Cottrell

Camera operator

Néstor Almendros

Composer

Artist

Nicole Rachline

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Editing

Cécile Decugis
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Short description

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

What's left behind the scenes

François Truffaut (1932-1984) raised the money for the film's production, initially intending to direct it himself. However, Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) ultimately directed it. Rohmer wanted to shoot around Christmas time, but Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930-2022) was unavailable, and the start of filming had to be postponed for almost a year.