My Night At Maud’s (“Ma nuit chez Maud” 1969, Eric Rohmer)
“Thanks to you, I’ve taken a step on the path to sainthood. As I said, women always aid my moral progress.” In the late fifties and early sixties, a group of French directors associated with the fim magazine Cahiers du cinema came to be known as the French New Wave. Truffaut, Godard and others reacted against big budget “prestige” films by creating energetic, youthful pictures that defied what they saw as the stodginess and artificiality of the so-called... Read More
Comments