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)
