My Night At Maud's

My Night at Maud’s is a love story. It’s not your ordinary love story as My Night at Maud’s has sarcasm and good insight even though it is a challenging love story. Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean Louis who is an engineer and man of the Catholic Church who sees this pretty blonde Maud whom is played by (Francoise Fabian) in church one day and immediately decides she will be his wife. In the meantime, he meets up with an old friend, Vidal (Antoine Vitez), a socialist who leads him to the lovely, vigorous, divorced Maud. The next thing that follows is a deep discussion between the characters, covering subjects such as skepticism, fate and, notably, Pascal’s “wager.” “If a man bets on God’s existence, and God does not exist, then a man loses nothing; but if a man bets on God’s existence and God does exist, then his reward is infinite.” This is deep!
Once again here is a love story. It seems to be a popular topic to write about in this day and era. With this movie however, the twist and uniqueness is comedy, religion, and drama. To me, that is not an easy task to mix love, religion, and comedy but Rohmer finds a way to blend this into a very intriguing film. I like the fact that this movie has a man finding a woman he falls in love with in church. I believe you can find love anywhere nevertheless there’s not anything wrong with finding love in church.