Director: Éric Rohmer Run Time: 110 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1969 Language: French
Starring: Antoine Vitez, Françoise Fabian, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Leonid Kogan, Marie-Christine Barrault
In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales”, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife, although when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are severely challenged. – Janus Films