Once and awhile at CAVIA we are slowly screening the best of Eric Rohmer's 6 MORAL TALES. So next Tuesday we will continue with this one which is totally appropriate for the winter season.
This was one of the very first French films I ever saw (I was 16), and the one that made me fall in love with cinema...so I really look forward to this precious screening!
I hope you can make it!
- Jeffrey
TUESDAY DECEMBER 15
Six contes moraux: III
MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD (My Night at Maud's)
Directed by Eric Rohmer
105 minutes
In French with English subtitles
French director Eric Rohmer, former critic and Cahiers du Cinema editor and one of the 5 principle creators of the French New Wave, created a very special film series around the difficult choices people make when they fall in love called "Six Moral Tales." My Night at Maud's was the third entry, and it was so well received in 1969 that it gave Rohmer international prominence. To this day, it remains Rohmer's masterpiece, a brilliantly insightful and sublime meditation on adultery. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a chaste engineer who thinks he's met his soul mate in church (Marie-Christine Barrault), yet winds up accidentally spending the night with the seductive Maud, who is more his intellectual equal. Filmed in stark black and white by Nestor Almendros, this is one of those rare films in which questions about philosophy translate into unexpected answers about the heart.
This film justifies Rohmer's reputation of slow pacing and almost non-stop dialogue, but also his fame as a great director. He does not have anything of the light joviality of his friends Truffaut and Godard, whose work is better known outside France. The picture is filmed almost as a documentary, being very realistic, and the opposite of 99% of all movies made these days. I hope you can make it to this screening of this wonderfully crafted film, which has an almost incandescent magic about it.
This is what a 26 year old viewer wrote recently after seeing the film:
"To my eyes, the mainstream - and I use the word loosely - cinema of the past 40 years (or perhaps 30) has been a constant regression. While the technology improves (and I use that term loosely as well, given the complete phoniness of most CGI), everything else has seen a marked decline. What was truly innovative about the films of the French New Wave was their life force, embodied by radical technique, new approaches to narrative, and naturalistic performances. The superficial aspects of the movement have been soaked up to be sure, but the classics still shock and provoke because what was really so important about them has been completely cast aside."
I couldn't agree more with those wise observations!
Ciné INTERZONE Film Club
Filmhuis Cavia- Van Hallstraat 52-B
Time: 20:30
Nightly membership- 3 Euros
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