History Film / MyNightAtMauds

The protagonist is an unnamed 34-year-old man (Creator/JeanLouisTrintignant) who works as an engineer at the Michelin plant in Clermont.[[note]]Clermont would be the setting for another film made around the same time, the documentary ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity''.[[/note]] The man is an observant Catholic who goes to midnight mass on Christmas Eve, but his religious piety does not prevent him from being infatuated with a beautiful blonde who rides about town on her bicycle.

* AuthorAppeal: Rohmer was fascinated by Blaise Pascal and Pascal's Wager, to the extent of producing a television discussion on the subject a few years before this film.

* DistantFinale: After most of the movie takes place over a week, the finale leaps forward five years for the final meeeting between the protagonist and Maud.

* ShesGotLegs: Vidal calls Maud out when she comes out of the side room dressed only in a man's long shirt.
--> '''Vidal''': You just wanted to show off your legs!\\
'''Maud''': Precisely! My only means of seduction.

* TitleDrop: Not directly, but the conversation between Maud and the protagonist at the end of the film points out the significance of the wording of the title. He mentions "That evening (''soir'') at your place", and she corrects him: "Evening? Night (''nuit''), you mean. Our night (''notre nuit'')", subtly reminding him that he didn't just visit her, he literally spent the night in her bed.

This film was the third of Rohmer's ''Film/SixMoralTales'', a series of six films that weren't really a series, but were connected by a shared theme of human morality. It's Rohmer's most famous film and often considered his MagnumOpus. ''My Night at Maud's'' was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to ''Film/{{Z}}'', another film that starred Jean-Louis Trintignant.

* DistantFinale: After most of the movie takes place over a week, the finale leaps forward five years for th final meeeting between the protagonist and Maud.

* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Maud does this deliberately, inviting the protagonist to stay the night and then revealing that oops, she doesn't have a guest room.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: After filming ''La Collectionneuse'' in color in 1967, Rohmer elected to do this film in black & white, an unexpected move for 1969.

This film was the third of Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales", a series of six films that weren't really a series, but were connected by a shared theme of human morality. ''My Night at Maud's'' was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to ''Film/{{Z}}'', another film that starred Jean-Louis Trintignant.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The whole film is shot in black and white, in 1969.

''My Night at Maud's'' is a 1969 film from France, directed by Creator/EricRohmer.

* BettyAndVeronica: In an inversion, the protagonist rejects the Veronica figure (Maud) to pursue the Betty figure (Françoise), though by the end, which personality each woman actually fits isn't nearly as clear-cut as it seemed earlier.

The protagonist is an unnamed 34-year-old man (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who works as an engineer at the Michelin plant in Clermont.[[note]]Clermont would be the setting for another film made around the same time, the documentary ''Film/TheSorrowAndThePity''.[[/note]] The man is an observant Catholic who goes to midnight mass on Christmas Eve, but his religious piety does not prevent him from being infatuated with a beautiful blonde who rides about town on her bicycle.

* DidIMentionItsChristmas: It's the holidays, but other than a midnight mass it seems like no big deal. Lampshades when one character says "Protestant countries make a big thing out of Christmas."

''My Night at Maud's'' is a 1969 film from France, directed by Eric Rohmer.

* StalkerWithACrush: The protagonist comes off like this when he's in his car following around Francoise on her bicycle.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The one woman in the protagonist's life, Maud, is brunette, and she's a free-spirited EthicalSlut who doesn't believe in God and tries to seduce the protagonist. His other woman, Francoise, is blonde and sweet and sleeps with a crucifix above her bed.

'''Maud''': Precisely! My only means of seduction.

!!Tropes:

The man runs into his old school friend Vidal. Vidal is both a professor and a Marxist, and the two start in on a debate about [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager Pascal's Wager]] and the nature of God. Clermont gets slammed with snow on Christmas night, and the man can't make it out to his home in the country, so Vidal invites the man to stay overnight in the home of his girlfriend Maud. Maud (Francoise Fabian) is an atheist like Vidal, and a sexually adventurous libertine to boot. Maud, who is obviously intrigued by Vidal's friend while also amused at his religious faith, sets out to seduce him.