My Night at Maud's

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Might At Maud’s, 1969.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces My Night At Maud’s, 1969.

The friend who brought them together has just left, and divorceè Maud (Francoise Fabian) is persuading bachelor Jean-Louis (Trintignant) to stick around, beginning the conversation that occupies most of the film, in Eric Rohmer’s My Night At Maud’s, 1969, the third title in his Six Moral Tales.

Visiting professor “Jean-Louis” (Trintignant) on a quiet Christmas-time social evening in Clermont-Ferrand, sees the girl from church (Marie-Christine Barrault) again, then runs into an old friend, a fellow academic, Vidal (Antoine Vitez), in Eric Rohmer’s My Night At Maud’s, 1969.

We know little about Jean-Louis Trintignant’s character, Jean-Louis, except that he seems to be a bachelor and he’s gone to church (at the Cathedral in Clermont-Ferrand, France), where he sees a blonde (Marie-Christine Barrault) he’s never met, early in My Night At Maud’s, 1969, the international hit and third film in Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales.

At the shank of their impromptu social evening, it sounds like professor Vidal (Antoine Vitez) and old pal Jean-Louis (Trintignant) won’t be going to see his friend Maud (Francoise Fabian), but they do, thus creating the central premise in director Eric Rohmer’s My Night At Maud’s, 1969.