My Night with Maud divided audiences on its opening night in 1969. Photograph: British Film Institute One of the key Cahiers du Cinema critics, and co-author (with Claude Chabrol) of the first important book on his fellow Catholic Hitchcock, Eric Rohmer was nearly 50 and the Nouvelle Vague had hit the shores and retreated by the time My Night with Maud , now re-released to mark his recent death, brought him serious international attention.
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