My Night at Maud's (1969) on Netflix
PG19691h 45mComedyDramaRomance
Jean-Louis, a Catholic engineer new to Clermont-Ferrand, intends to marry Françoise, a blonde he has seen at church. His old friend Vidal introduces him to Maud, a divorced pediatrician.
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Plot summary
Jean-Louis, a Catholic engineer, has been moved by the Michelin company to Clermont-Ferrand, where he becomes certain he will marry a young blonde named Françoise, whom he has seen in church. In a bar he meets Vidal, an old school friend who teaches philosophy as an atheist and a Marxist. The two talk about Blaise Pascal, and Vidal invites Jean-Louis to an evening violin performance. Afterward Vidal proposes meeting again the next day, Christmas Eve, but Jean-Louis is going to Midnight Mass; Vidal comes along and arranges a visit afterward to his friend Maud, a divorced pediatrician, put off for a day because she must see her ex-husband. Vidal mentions that he and Maud were lovers, and asks Jean-Louis to help keep the visit platonic.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My Night at Maud's (1969)
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- Chanturgue, the wine discussed in Maud's apartment, exploded in popularity because of the film, becoming one of the best-selling imported wines by 1971.
- Éric Rohmer had the funding to shoot My Night at Maud's in 35 mm by 1967, but Jean-Louis Trintignant was unavailable at the time and filming was delayed, so the film came out after the cycle's fourth part, La Collectionneuse.
- The film's conversations about Blaise Pascal were directly inspired by a 1965 episode of the television series En profil dans le texte, directed by Rohmer and titled "l'Entretien sur Pascal", which staged a similar debate between Brice Parain and Dominican Father Dominique Dubarle.
