My Night At Maud's (1969) - (Movie Clip) It's Better That Things Be Impossible

My Night At Maud's (1969) -- (Movie Clip) That Way To Unthinking Belief

Visiting professor “Jean-Louis” (Trintignant) on a quiet Christmas-time social evening in Clermont-Ferrand, sees the girl from church (Marie-Christine Barrault) again, then runs into an old friend, a fellow academic, Vidal (Antoine Vitez), in Eric Rohmer’s My Night At Maud’s, 1969.

My Night At Maud's (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Lord, I Am Unworthy

We know little about Jean-Louis Trintignant’s character, Jean-Louis, except that he seems to be a bachelor and he’s gone to church (at the Cathedral in Clermont-Ferrand, France), where he sees a blonde (Marie-Christine Barrault) he’s never met, early in My Night At Maud’s, 1969, the international hit and third film in Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales.

My Night At Maud's (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Two Cases Of Protracted Adolescence

At the shank of their impromptu social evening, it sounds like professor Vidal (Antoine Vitez) and old pal Jean-Louis (Trintignant) won’t be going to see his friend Maud (Francoise Fabian), but they do, thus creating the central premise in director Eric Rohmer’s My Night At Maud’s, 1969.