Monday, October 17, 2016

My 150 Favorite Films - #11

My Night at Maud's (1969)

The most durable director of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer excelled at making films that the public wanted to see.The third (fourth in terms of date of release) in a series of Six Moral Tales; My Night at Maud's deceptive simplicity, in which a man, infatuated with one woman, spends the night with another, belies a deeper complexity in which philosophy and religion play a strong role, taking  up most of the voluminous conversation in this film. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, along with Best Screenplay, My Night at Maud's endures as one of Rohmer's strongest statements that he ever put on film.