My Night with Maud

Ma nuit chez Maud

A religious man’s faith is tested over the course of one night in Éric Rohmer’s exquisite exploration of free will and desire.

  • Director

    Éric Rohmer

  • With

    Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez

  • France 1969. 110min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

The less radical of the Cahiers du Cinéma critics turned filmmakers, Éric Rohmer’s classic centres on a devoutly Catholic engineer newly arrived in Clermont-Ferrand. He has decided to marry a woman he spotted at Mass, but encounters a test of faith when he meets Maud, a confident, attractive and intelligent divorcée. The fourth of his Six Moral Tales, My Night with Maud deftly blends the physical with the metaphysical.

Diana Cipriano