The Mother and the Whore
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| The Mother and the Whore | |
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| Directed by | Jean Eustache |
| Produced by | Pierre Cottrell |
| Written by | Jean Eustache |
| Starring | Jean-Pierre Léaud Françoise Lebrun Bernadette Lafont |
| Distributed by | USA New Yorker Films |
| Release date(s) | 5 October 1973 New York Film Festival |
| Running time | 219 min |
| Language | French |
| IMDb profile | |
The Mother and the Whore (French: La maman et la putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache.
[edit] Plot
This marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair. Clocking in at over 3½ hours, the movie focuses less on plot than on the confused and ambivalent interrelations of these three lost souls.
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[edit] External links
- The New York Times review on "The Mother and the Whore" by NORA SAYRE
Published October 6, 1973.
- "The Way We Are" article on "The Mother and the Whore" by Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader, 1999
| Preceded by Solaris |
Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, Cannes 1973 |
Succeeded by Arabian Nights |
