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My Night at Maud's

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My Night at Maud's	comment	My Night at Maud's (French: Ma nuit chez Maud) is a 1969 film from France, directed by Éric Rohmer.The protagonist is an unnamed 34-year-old man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who works as an engineer at the Michelin plant in Clermont.note Clermont would be the setting for another film made around the same time, the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity. The man is an observant Catholic who goes to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, but his religious piety does not prevent him from being infatuated with a beautiful blonde who rides about town on her bicycle.The man runs into his old school friend Vidal. Vidal is both a professor and a Marxist, and the two start in on a debate about Pascal's Wager and the nature of God. Clermont gets slammed with snow on Christmas night, and the man can't make it out to his home in the country, so Vidal invites the man to stay overnight in the home of his girlfriend Maud. Maud (Francoise Fabian) is an atheist like Vidal, and a sexually adventurous libertine to boot. Maud, who is obviously intrigued by Vidal's friend while also amused at his religious faith, sets out to seduce him.This film was the third of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, a series of six films that weren't really a series, but were connected by a shared theme of human morality. It's Rohmer's most famous film and often considered his best. My Night at Maud's was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to Z, another film that starred Jean-Louis Trintignant.
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My Night at Maud's / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Not directly, but the conversation between Maud and the protagonist at the end of the film points out the significance of the wording of the title. He mentions "That evening (soir) at your place", and she corrects him: "Evening? Night (nuit), you mean. Our night (notre nuit)", subtly reminding him that he didn't just visit her, he literally spent the night in her bed.
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My Night at Maud's / int_24cf8a0e	type	Speech-Centric Work
My Night at Maud's / int_24cf8a0e	comment	Speech-Centric Work: A lot of talking in this movie, especially in the long long scene in Maud's apartment where they talk about Pascal and faith.
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My Night at Maud's / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
My Night at Maud's / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: After most of the movie takes place over a week, the finale leaps forward five years for the final meeting between the protagonist and Maud.
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My Night at Maud's / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
My Night at Maud's / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: Vidal calls Maud out when she comes out of the side room dressed only in a man's long shirt.
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My Night at Maud's / int_45a387bc	type	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
My Night at Maud's / int_45a387bc	comment	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The one woman in the protagonist's life, Maud, is brunette, and she's a free-spirited Ethical Slut who doesn't believe in God and tries to seduce the protagonist. His other woman, Francoise, is blonde and sweet and sleeps with a crucifix above her bed. However, this is played with and deconstructed to some extent—it's hinted that Maud feels more for the protagonist than she's willing to admit, and Francoise is revealed to be not as innocent as she looks.
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My Night at Maud's / int_5485efbf	type	Dreaming of a White Christmas
My Night at Maud's / int_5485efbf	comment	Dreaming of a White Christmas: Clermont can get snowy in the winter, so it's a Justified Trope.
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My Night at Maud's / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
My Night at Maud's / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Rohmer was fascinated by Blaise Pascal and Pascal's Wager, to the extent of producing a television discussion on the subject a few years before this film.
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My Night at Maud's / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
My Night at Maud's / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Though it's never outright stated, Rohmer makes it clear Francoise was the woman Maud's ex-husband was having an affair with.
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My Night at Maud's / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
My Night at Maud's / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: The protagonist comes off like this when he's in his car following around Francoise on her bicycle.
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My Night at Maud's / int_8c170cb1	type	Ethical Slut
My Night at Maud's / int_8c170cb1	comment	Ethical Slut: Maud is dating Vidal but she has no problem with seducing the protagonist.
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My Night at Maud's / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
My Night at Maud's / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: In an inversion, the protagonist rejects the Veronica figure (Maud) to pursue the Betty figure (Françoise), though by the end, which personality each woman actually fits isn't nearly as clear-cut as it seemed earlier. You can also interpret the protagonist (Betty) and Vidal (Veronica) as a male version of the dyad, and Maud also gravitates to the Betty figure.
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My Night at Maud's / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
My Night at Maud's / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Maud is much more sympathetic on rewatch, since you start viewing her actions through the lens of her being a woman who's been burned by love many times.
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My Night at Maud's / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
My Night at Maud's / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the words of the Mass, of all places: "I am not worthy to receive thee under my roof. But only say the word and my soul will be healed." There's a close-up profile shot of Françoise as this gets repeated, and the words point to what eventually will happen between her and the protagonist (and in an ironic way, they also apply to Maud).
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My Night at Maud's / int_abea0613	type	Sleeps in the Nude
My Night at Maud's / int_abea0613	comment	Sleeps in the Nude: Free-spirited Maud sleeps in the nude, even when she has a stranger like the protagonist staying over, though she strips down when she's under the blankets. She tells him that she hates the feeling of being "strangled" if she sleeps with clothes on. Naturally, this leads to even more awkwardness and sexual tension to the There Is Only One Bed situation.
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My Night at Maud's / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
My Night at Maud's / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The narrator, Francoise, and their son go skipping off into the surf at the beach.
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My Night at Maud's / int_ba311c7c	type	Slip into Something More Comfortable
My Night at Maud's / int_ba311c7c	comment	Slip into Something More Comfortable: Maud says she needs to change, disappears into the back, and comes out wearing nothing but a man's shirt.
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My Night at Maud's / int_c3c77510	type	There Is Only One Bed
My Night at Maud's / int_c3c77510	comment	There Is Only One Bed: Maud does this deliberately, inviting the protagonist to stay the night and then revealing that oops, she doesn't have a guest room.
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My Night at Maud's / int_c647e8e8	type	Pascal's Wager
My Night at Maud's / int_c647e8e8	comment	Pascal's Wager: This is discussed by Jean-Louis and Vidal
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My Night at Maud's / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The protagonist is never named. Some sources call him "Jean-Louis", but that's just using the name of Jean-Louis Trintignant.
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My Night at Maud's / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
My Night at Maud's / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: After filming La Collectionneuse in color in 1967, Rohmer elected to do this film in black & white, an unexpected move for 1969.
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My Night at Maud's / int_d0c30f35	comment	Did I Mention It's Christmas?: It's the holidays, but other than a midnight mass it seems like no big deal. Lampshaded when one character says "Protestant countries make a big thing out of Christmas."
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My Night at Maud's / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
My Night at Maud's / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Vidal and Maud both accuse the protagonist of this, saying he calls himself a Catholic but he's slept with women before. The protagonist replies that he never said he was perfect.
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My Night at Maud's / int_f7eda5d8	comment	Snow Means Love: A new blanket of snow has fallen in the town when the protagonist ventures out the next day and finally has the nerve to approach Francoise. They hit it off.
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