Mother and the Whore
Both epic and intimate, ethnographic in its cultural detail and subjective in its exposure of the raw nerves of body and psyche.
-- Amy Taubin, Village Voice
The Mother and the Whore
After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and May ’68 came The Mother and the Whore, the legendary, autobiographical magnum opus by Jean Eustache that captured a disillusioned generation navigating the post-idealism 1970s within the microcosm of a ménage à trois. The aimless, clueless, Parisian pseudo-intellectual Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) lives with his tempestuous older girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), and begins a dalliance with the younger, sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun, Eustache’s own former lover), leading to a volatile open relationship marked by everyday emotional violence and subtle but catastrophic shifts in power dynamics. Transmitting his own sex life to the screen with a startling immediacy, Eustache achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.
Genre
Drama,
French Cinema,
Repertory,
Anniversary Classics,
Romance,
Comedy,
Sexuality
Runtime
219
Language
French
Director
Jean Eustache
Writer(s)
Jean Eustache
Cast
Bernadette Lafont,
Jean-Pierre Léaud,
Françoise Lebrun
Awards:
Winner, Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival
Nominee, Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Winner, Interfilm Award - Recommendation ~ Forum of New Cinema, Berlin International Film Festival
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