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La maman et la putain [LAST SCREENING]

Director(s)
Jean Eustache
Country
France
Year
1973
Duration
219 minutes
Language
French
Subtitles
English
Format
DCP - 4K Restoration
Image tirée du film La maman et la putain

New 4K Restoration

Screenings in collaboration with Hors Champ for the release of their new issue “Entrelacements de Jean Eustache”

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.

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Director(s)
Jean Eustache
Country
France
Year
1973
Duration
219 minutes
Language
French
Subtitles
English
Format
DCP - 4K Restoration
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