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DVD : My Night at Maud'sIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan directed by: Eric Rohmer  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $12.99 You Save: $1.99 (13%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 9781572522121 Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 1572522127 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: January 14, 1998 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: Fox Lorber Theatrical Release Date: March 22, 1970 Sales Rank: 59977 MPN: 5007 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: French director Eric Rohmer, former critic and Cahiers du Cinema editor, created a very special romantic film series around the difficult choices men make when they fall in love with two women called "Six Moral Tales." My Night at Maud's was the third entry, and it was so well received in 1969 that it gave Rohmer international prominence. To this day, it remains Rohmer's masterpiece, a brilliantly insightful and sublime meditation on adult indiscretions. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a chaste engineer who thinks he's met his soul mate in church (Marie-Christine Barrault), yet winds up accidentally spending the night with the seductive Maud (Francoise Fabian), who is more his intellectual equal. Filmed in stark black and white by Nestor Almendros, this is one of those rare films in which questions about philosophy translate into unexpected answers about the heart. It's slow and methodical, but well worth the experience. --Bill Desowitz Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Rohmer's WagerJean-Louis Trintignant stars as Jean-Louis, a stern Catholic who has wandered the world before settling into a new job at Michelin in the Clermont area of France. For various reasons, Jean-Louis has never married, and at 34 years he finds himself lonely in this new place. He chances to meet an old school friend, Vital (Antoine Vitez). They have drinks and go to a bookstore and chat, primarily about religion and philosophy. When Vital proposes that they meet up with a newly divorced friend of ... Read More Rating: - The Logic of LoveI was a bit unprepared for what I saw in "My Night at Maud's" (I had anticipated a more festive movie under the mistaken pretense that "Maud's" was a night club). I admit to easing into the extended philosophical discussion of love and similar relationships. I also found myself enjoying the subtle and not so subtle hypocracy of the participants. However, this is a comedy in the Shakepearean mode; i.e you may be amused but it's unlikely you'll laugh. Fair enough, I took it for the candid look ... Read More Rating: - Essential French cinema: Rohmer's 'Ma nuit chez Maud.'Éric Rohmer (1920) challenged traditional Hollywood cinema with his French New Wave cycle of films, Six Moral Tales ("Contes moraux"). Inspired by F.W. Murnau's Sunrise, each "tale" follows the same basic story: a man is tempted a woman, but he ultimately resists the temptation. My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) (1969)--the third tale in the series, but the fourth to be filmed, has been called "the centerpiece" of Rohmer's Moral Tales. Filmed in stark black and white, it follows ... Read More Rating: - The head vs. the heartEric Rohmer's intelligent look at the subject of principles vs. intuition. A mathemetician (Jean-Louis) meets an old school chum (Vidal), a philosopher, and they begin a conversation about Pascal and mind over heart and faithfulness. The conversation continues at Vidal's girlfriend's (Maud) house. Suddenly our mathemetician is left alone with the Maud, and she invites him to spend the night with her. He accepts but is determined not to sleep with her to maintain his priciples, and in ... Read More Rating: - Fourth opus: the supreme expression of good taste!Eric Rohmer' s artistic personality has been one of the most original and eloquent. Expressive sobriety supported by a high caliber humor sense. In this lovable and intelligent work, the seduction issue has never been treated, as an admirable exercise of seduction that links with the purest tradition of the French theater of old ages, plenty of irony, sarcasm and fine charm. Indeed, the picture is extremely talky, and slow paved in consequence; Rohmer supports on an elegant and smart script ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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