French New Wave, Curated By Richard Linklater

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE

Directed by Jean Eustache

France, 1973, 3h 39min, DCP, In French with English subtitles.

French New Wave, Curated By Richard Linklater

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

Featuring an in-person introduction by AFS Founder and Artistic Director Richard Linklater.

“A self-consuming masterwork that seems to burn itself up as it passes through the projector.”
—The New Yorker

“It’s the most existentialist, raw, deep film about the impossible nature of romantic love in the modern Western world.”
—Gaspar Noé

A young man forms a love triangle between his girlfriend and a nurse in Jean Eustache’s drama, which sees the revolution move from the streets to the sheets in the wake of May ‘68. Starring Nouvelle Vague icons Jean-Pierre Léaud (here a far cry from Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel) and Bernadette Lafont (OUT 1, LE BEAU SERGE) alongside Françoise Lebrun (VORTEX).

 

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