WATCH PARTY: My Night at Maude's (1969) Éric Rohmer @ Mary Pretlow Library

We'll be in the 2nd floor conference room, to the left as you get off the elevator/stairs. RUNTIME: 105 minutes RATING: PG SYNOPSIS: In *My Night at Maud’s,* the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of the Six Moral Tales series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of 1960s cinema. A Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code and immerses himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Blaise Pascal. After spotting the delicate Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife, although when he spends an unplanned night at the apartment of the bold divorcée Maud, his rigid standards are challenged. BLURBS: "Not many people could have done what Rohmer has. It is a very delicate triumph for the talkies, and the ending of his picture hangs there like the close of a great short story." - Penelope Gilliat, *The New Yorker* "My Night at Maud's is about love, being a Roman Catholic, body language and the games people play. It is just about the best movie I've seen on all four subjects." - Roger Ebert, *Chicago Sun-Times* "Rohmer's work will be around to contemplate for a long time-to contemplate with endless curiosity and pleasure-or so one would like to think." - Geoffrey O'Brien, *New York Review of Books*