La Maman et la Putain (1973)
Les Films du Losange / Elites Films / Ciné Qua Non / Simar / V.M.
B&W, 215 minutes.
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A major work, not because of its exhausting length (215 minutes) or the audacity, brilliance, and total originality of its language, but because of writer/editor/director Jean Eustache's breathtaking honesty and accuracy in portraying contemporary sexual and intellectual mores. This is the film that "explains" Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, vividly and compellingly dramatizing the confusions, uncertainties, and complexities of thoroughly modern human relationships.
—Don Druker
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French publicity poster for The Mother and the Whore |
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Direction: Jean Eustache.
Screenplay: Jean Eustache.
Photography: Pierre Lhomme, Jacques Renard, Michel Cenet.
Music: Mozart, Offenbach.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud.................................................Alexandre
Bernadette Lafont........................................................Marie
Françoise Lebrun...................................................Veronika
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Jean-Pierre Léaud and Françoise Lebrun in The Mother and the Whore |
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