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bathkuyp

One fascinating movie. Ingmar Bergman explores the intersection emotion and faith, Eric Rohmer studies the possibility to combine religion with reason. The six moral tales of Rohmer should be attached as a leaflet to Bergmans Faith-trilogy.

To quote Kabi Laretei: "it's a masterpiece But it's a dreary masterpiece.."

9 years 9 months ago

Dieguito

Brilliant!

11 years 3 months ago

Sunless

Nice, slow burning French film.

11 years 1 month ago

urastarburst

Immediately I knew I would love this movie. Great movie with lots of interesting dialogue. I wish I could talk about these kinds of things with my friends! The french adds to the movies tone and the ending is good.

8 years 2 months ago

Pike

Françoise Fabian.

7 years 2 months ago

locovoco

[i]'Don't be angry, don't be sad
Don't sit crying over good times you've had
Well there's a girl sitting right next to you
And she's just waiting for something to do

Well there's a rose in a fisted glove
And the eagle flies with the dove
And if you can't be with the one you love, honey
[/i[i]]love the one you're with'- Stephen Stills from the eponymous Stephen Stills

Who knew those famous words could apply so aptly to a French New Wave film?

Note: To think I wasted all that time and money in college and all I had to do was watch 'My Night At Maud's [/i]

8 years 3 months ago

MrE2Me

Has the word "idiot" ever been uttered so charmingly?

2 years 1 month ago

Siskoid

When I think of Éric Rohmer, I think of summer holidays and beaches, but his third "moral tale" takes place during the Christmas holidays. He starts Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's) with Mass, and there's an awful lot of it, then follows with a discussion on Pascal and mathematics and you think, this is gonna be the most boring Christmas movie ever. Thankfully, things pick up with the eponymous nuit at Maud's. It probably shouldn't have that effect on me, but listening to intellectuals debate such things as Faith like they're in college makes me laugh, and the banter here pitched it just right. That, and Françoise Fabian is to die for. Simple interest is damn sexy. I could have stayed in that apartment all night, but Rohmer has much more to say about relationships between men and women, and through chance encounters with both Maud and a girl who is his "type" (probabilities being one of the themes), there's an attempt to contrast who one should be with, who one thinks one should be with, and who the "author", God or some ironic fellow named Éric Rohmer, decides you'll be with. The fact that Maud seems to so completely complement Jean-Louis is partly due to Fabian's onscreen charisma, but it's the little things, like his sudden inability to find a match to light his cigarette while in the other girl's apartment, that put the lie to his notion of the "perfect girl" of his imagination. And if he left it at that, there'd be a meaty film there, but he also addresses issues of what constitutes sin, faith and kindness, and I love his snowbound Central France (the one character who thinks snow feels "fake" is deluded in many ways, as it's a metaphor, but man, it really feels like the production improvised around the weather).

3 years 4 months ago

Skyscore

http://www.afisha.ru/movie/170242/review/146515/

12 years 2 months ago

nicolaskrizan

much talk and little action

http://1001movies.posterous.com/915

12 years 3 months ago