My Night At Maud's
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Movie Reviews of My Night At Maud's
Movie Review: Great film. Poor DVD.
Summary: 3 Stars
Like all of the Fox/Lorber releases of Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" film series, I'd give this film 5 stars for content, especially if you enjoy writer/director Eric Rohmer's subtle, deliberatly paced, conversational style. His films crawl into your consciousness slowly and before you know it you're hooked. Unfortunatly I'd give the DVD transfer 1 star as it looks and sounds no better than Fox/Lorber's currently available VHS version and there are no extras to speak of except for incomplete director and star filmography listings. The film is not presented in its original aspect ratio and the French subtitles are burned into the print and so are not removable from the screen. ENDMovie Review: Horribly dated
Summary: 1 Stars
The plot of this film is simple enough. A man who is a Catholic sees a woman whom he decides to pursue. She is young attractive and blond. Nowdays he comes across as something of a stalker. Some time later he meets and old friend and they go to vist a woman called Maude. Maude is a single mother and she and the Catholic end up alone. She talks him into staying the night but the couple do not have sex.
Thus the hero heads off to marry the blond. The end of the film is a chance meeting with Maude and the realisation that the blond had by chance been Maude's husbands mistress.
In 1969 this would have been seen as a pretty sexy film. It relies on the tension of whether the hero and Maude will have sex or whether the vision of the blond will keep him from straying. The irony of course being that the blond was not that virtous herself. The film maker it would seem also is of the view that Maude is a more interesting or attractive women than the blond as she can talk.
The problem with the film is that it is very much a static film which is filled with huge amounts of dialogue. The sexual tension between the characters is something which would have kept audiences interested in the late 60's. Now with the change that has occured in sexual morals you just hear the dialogue. The reality that the conversation is very very dull.
The other problem is that all of the characters are drop kicks. The male is a person whom the audience is meant to identify with. Yet he does not say one thing that is amusing, interesting or even notworthy. He is a person who is attracted to women on a superficial basis, falling in love without speaking to the object of his love. Maude is okay but she goes on and on and on. She also appears to be attracted to the lead drop kick which is not easy to understand.
This might have rated as an interesting movie in its time but its now dull dull dull.