Word: nuits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a curiosity, however, Ma Nuit Chez Maud achieves its power through an aesthetic structure vastly more engaging than mere portraiture. Its first-person narrative frame forces you to share the experience of Jean-Louis (Jean-Louis Trintignant) through his visual point of view (also brief interior monologues), subtly builds up a tension between your sensibility and your experience of his, and finally forces a dialectical confrontation in sequence after sequence with the ultimately desirable Maud (Francoise Fabian), where his choices directly thwart your inclinations to act through him. Rohmer uses this audience identification with the human reality...
...ever, screened in the Boston area. Definite booking has already been made for Glauber Rocha's "Antonio das Mortes" and "Black God, White Devil," Jean Marie Straub's "The Chronicle of Anna Magdelena Bach," and Bertolucci's "The Partner." There is also a possibility that Rohmer's "Ma Nuit Chez Maud" will be screened...
Yves Montand is perfect as Z's charismatic hero. Coutard's camera heightens his magnetism. Irene Pappas is, of course, magnificent as Lambrakis' widow. Her facial expressions speak for her suffering. Jean-Louis Tritignant ( A Man and a Woman, Ma Nuit Chez Maud ) plays the judge whose investigation, along with that of a crusading young journalist, exposes the fascists...
Still, Z is a powerful document of our political world. And one can only marvel at the screen personalities of Montand and Irene Papas-and the acting of Jean-Louis Trintignant (who with Z, Les Biches, and Rehmer's Ma Nuit Chez Mand proves himself one of the best French actors) and Charles Denner (even more impassioned than...