My Night at Maud's

Overview

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud 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.

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Top cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis

Françoise Fabian

Maud

Marie-Christine Barrault

Françoise

Antoine Vitez

Vidal

Leonid Kogan

Concert Violinist

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Guy Léger

Priest

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Anne Dubot

Blonde Friend

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Marie Becker

Marie (uncredited)

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Marie-Claude Rauzier

Student (uncredited)