The Mother and the Whore

Infobox Film
name = The Mother and the Whore
director = Jean Eustache
producer = Pierre Cottrell
writer = Jean Eustache
starring = Jean-Pierre Léaud
Françoise Lebrun
Bernadette Lafont
distributor = USA New Yorker Films
released = 5 October 1973
New York Film Festival
runtime = 219 min
language = French
imdb_id = 0070359

"The Mother and the Whore" ( _fr. La maman et la putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache.

Plot

This marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair. Clocking in at over 3½ hours, the movie focuses less on plot than on the confused and ambivalent interrelations of these three lost souls.

Awards

* Cannes Film Festival :
**Grand Prix of the Jury
**FIPRESCI

External links

* [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E03E2D71F30E63ABC4E53DFB6678388669EDE The New York Times review] on "The Mother and the Whore" by NORA SAYREPublished October 6, 1973.
* [http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/1999/0199/01229.html "The Way We Are"] article on "The Mother and the Whore" by Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader, 1999

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title=Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, Cannes
years=1973
before="Solaris"
after="Arabian Nights"