Episode 168 – Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s

Scott and David discuss faith, chance, choices, and morality in Eric Rohmer's landmark 1969 hit.

This time on the podcast, Scott is joined by David Blakeslee to discuss Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s.

About the film:

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. 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, although when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged. 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.

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Episode Links:

My Night at Maud’s (1969) – The Criterion Collection
My Night at Maud’s: Chances Are… – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
My Night at Maud’s (1969) – IMDb
My Night at Maud’s – Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
My Night at Maud’s Movie Review (1970) | Roger Ebert
Movie Review – My Night at Maud’s – Eloquent ‘Ma Nuit Chez Maud’ – NYTimes.com
My Night at Maud’s – Senses of Cinema
My Night at Maud’s (1970) – Overview – TCM.com
My Night at Maud’s | Chicago Reader

Episode Credits:

Scott Nye (Twitter / Battleship Pretension)
David Blakeslee (Twitter / Criterion Reflections)

Music from this episode is by She & Him and Meaghan Smith.