The influences behind The Last Days of Disco

Following one thread, 6 works from The Last Days of Disco to Moral Letters to Lucilius. Back to all 31 works

1. 

   1969

   My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud)

   Film by Éric Rohmer

   French New Wave. France. In French.

   Third of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, in which a Catholic engineer spends a talk-filled night with a divorcée, arguing about Pascal and love.

   What it handed down

   To Metropolitan (1990)

   Stylistic influence, probable.

   Reviewers compared Metropolitan to Rohmer's Moral Tales, and Stillman has spoken of admiring Rohmer's talk-driven films. Like Maud's, Metropolitan builds its drama from long, witty conversations in apartments where ideas about virtue and love substitute for action.

   Where it came from

   • Pensées, Blaise Pascal 1670

   Where to watch

   • Stream HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

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