Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- france
- philosophy
- bachelor
- mathematics
- mathematical theorem
- engineer
- love
- religion
- morality
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis
Françoise Fabian
Maud
Marie-Christine Barrault
Françoise
Antoine Vitez
Vidal
- Leonid Kogan — Concert Violinist
- Guy Léger — Priest
- Anne Dubot — Blonde Friend
- Marie Becker — Marie (uncredited)
- Marie-Claude Rauzier — Student (uncredited)
- Directed
- Éric Rohmer
- Written
- Éric Rohmer
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 359 ratings
- Studio
- Les Films de la Pléiade, Les Films des deux mondes, Les Films du Carrosse, Les Films du Losange, Les Productions de la Guéville, Renn Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
