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THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE

Directed by Jean Eustache

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

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

“Both epic and intimate, ethnographic in its cultural detail and subjective in its exposure of the raw nerves of body and psyche.”
Village Voice

“Eustache, in his tender and passionate depiction of romantic roundelay, delivers nothing less than a comprehensive vision of France’s post-1968 revolution and it’s a ferociously conservative view.”
The New Yorker

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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