Best Original Screenplay1971 Film Fan Awards43rd Academy Awards
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Best Original Screenplay Nominee

My Night at Maud's (1969)

Ceremony Year: 1971Category: Best Original ScreenplayReleased: 1969
Nominated Talent & Credits
Éric Rohmer— Eric Rohmer
Synopsis / Overview

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' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

Historical Academy Record
WRITING (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) — 43rd Academy Awards (1971)

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