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Ma Nuit chez Maud
FRANCE · 1969

Ma Nuit chez Maud

Eric Rohmer
religious faith vs atheism Pascal's philosophy morality and desire intellectual debate Catholic guilt
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Synopsis

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' Catholi

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