THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Wed, Sep 27 7:00 PM

Description

French Cinema
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE
New Restoration!
Wednesday, September 27th at 7 PM
$15 Public | $10 Members

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. (France, 1973, 219 mins, French | Dir. Jean Eustache)