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“My Night at Maud’s.� “Claire’s Knee.� Media/Cinematheque Collection. $59.95. In the great “Ma Nuit Chez Maud�--the fourth of Eric Rohmer’s “Six Moral Tales�--a bachelor (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who is both a devout Catholic and a Don Juan, is torn between two women: the piquant Maud (Francoise Fabian), with whom he has a memorable all-night flirtation, and a haunting woman (Marie-Christine Barrault) whom he glimpses from afar at church. Rohmer’s dialogue--including a famous argument over philosopher Blaise Pascal between the bachelor and a Marxist friend--is marvelously intelligent. The acting is brilliant, the rhythm perfect, the pace swift, the resolution exquisitely ironic. A masterpiece. The fifth “moral tale�--the ravishingly colored “Claire’s Knee�--turns on a similar romantic dilemma and exchange at a lush summer vacation spot and is almost equally fine. Information: (213) 216-7900. Both: ****