Ma nuit chez Maud ( 1969)
My Night At Madu’s
The Catholic Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis
Trintignant) runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal (Antoine Vitez), in
[[Clermont-Ferrand]] around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the
modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud (Françoise Fabian) and the three
engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's
life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up
spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity
and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very
beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he
has never yet spoken to.
Famous
Line
Jean-Louis tells
Francoise the choices he makes in his life are easy saying, "it seems
to be for my moral good. For instance, a girl I loved didn't love me, and she
married another. in the end it was good she married him and not me. I mean good
for me, because I didn't really love her. He left his wife and children for
her. I had no wife or children to leave. But she knew that if I'd had a family,
I wouldn't have left them.
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