My Night With Maud details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Guy Léger, Francoise Fabian, Anne Dubot, Léonide Kogan, Françoise Fabian, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-Christine Barrault |
| Director: | Eric Rohmer |
| Genres: | Drama - Romantic, Romance, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | FUSION MEDIA SALES |
| Name | Discs | |
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My Night With Maud |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 11 Oct 2010 |
| Main languages: | French |
| Subtitles: | English |
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How to live well
By Warden (18 reviews) from York, England , 25 Oct 2010[Highly rated reviewer]
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It is often argued that the modern English speaking world is uncomfortable in dealing with philosophical debate. Even though we might imagine the same story as a Hollywood rom-com the look and feel of it would be so transformed as to obscure the message.
So anyone thinking about seeing this film, and it is in a series of Moral Tales, needs to accept that it belongs in a tradition which may be unfamiliar and expects intellectual engagement by the viewer. It is set in what in 1969 was still an overwhelmingly Catholic society, and when teaching on moral issues was undergoing change. Sexual mores were different, though not so very much, from today. But that should not cut us off from the subject matter. What does it mean to act well, especially in the sphere of personal relationships? Given that we are all imperfect, can we and should we suppress our personal desires according to external rules, and why?
Does Trintignant's character succeed in doing the right thing? Watch it and see.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(7)My night with Mr WOOD
By jenniferjuniper (6 reviews) , 11 Jan 2013Jennifer juniper says, aaron dearest i found this to be most enjoyable and gave it a five star rating. I didnt read the write up before watching so it amused me somewhat that jean-louis was a mathmetician. I love it like i love buying daffodils to put in milk bottles on a cold winters day.- Was this review helpful to you?
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My wasted night with Eric Rohmer.
By Nitaray (222 reviews) from Farnham , 23 Feb 2011Wordy,long-winded discussions between the two male lead actors on religion, mathematics and other philosophical matters make the first half of this old black & white movie quite tedious. But then I'm not familiar with Eric Rohmer's work.
I found the whole thing excruciatingly boring and was sorry I sat it out as nothing happened.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A Little Gem of a Film
By a customer from Bristol , 16 Jan 2011Avoid like the plague if you don't like Eric Rohmer films. But if you do this is one of his best. By the end you feel like you have witnessed (even participated in - because at times what you are watching doesn't feel like a film at all, but conversations and situations you are eavesdropping in on) a perfect story.- Was this review helpful to you?
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My interminable night at Maud's
By a customer , 24 Dec 2010You'll love this film if you like to watch French people having 40+ year old discussions about Catholicism, philosophy and maths (MATHS for heaven's sake). If that doesn't appeal nip down the end of the street and watch the traffic lights change for 110 minutes instead: you'll have loads more fun, the time will pass so much more quickly and it won't cost you a penny.- Was this review helpful to you?
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MY NIGHT IN
By a customer from TUNBRIDGE WELLS, ENGLAND , 03 Dec 2010The problem with films that deal in ideas divorced from lived experience is that they can be as detached from reality as the movie. The academic sterility of debates about abstruse ideals like when Communism or when Catholicism strongly suggests a when Western desire to flee from real life in order to inhabit a non-existent world free from rational responsibilities - as the when bourgeois when Whites do here.
This film is about when Christian hope but, without analyzing the concept fully, this comes across as merely the expression of wishful thinking that the alleged moral certainties of both religion and atheism do nothing to dispel. The unexamined self-consciousness of the characters makes the film as light and as superficial as they are since there is no insight here. These people do not wish to ascertain reality but to argue among themselves outside of a reality they clearly disdain - despite the simple non-existence of any space outside of experience. Worse, this tendency is emphasized by a lack of original thinking since characters quote and cite but say little produced by their own minds rather than rely on their eidetic memories. The ennui and malaise on show here is the inevitable result of this kind of circular activity, since the pretense of depth is merely the avoidance of same.- Was this review helpful to you?
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