My Night at Maud's: Eric Rohmer, Director

by English Showalter and Éric Rohmer

It was a surprise to everyone, including director Eric Rohmer, that My Night at Maud's was a success. The film violated almost all the rules of popular filmmaking. It had no crime, no explicit sex, no violence, and no action. As English Showalter points out in his excellent introduction to the volume, half the film was spent on one scene in which three characters seem to talk endlessly about subjects of little interest to a general audience--religion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813519403
• ISBN13: 9780813519401
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.