PART OF CINECITY 2023:


Sunday 12 November 2023 at 3:00pm
at ACCA - Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
Gardner Center Rd, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RA

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE


La Maman et la Putain
Jean Eustache
France / 1973 / 217m
French with English subtitles
Screening in a new restoration from Janus Films

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.

Introduced by film curator and lecturer Dr Martine Pierquin

Tickets £5 / £3 (cons) in advance through ACCA

More details and all festival screenings at Cinecity 2023

Further Reading:
An Anti-Epic Clash of Private and Public Mythologies Slant magazine
'A work of strange, ineffable power...' RogerEbert.com
Where to begin with Jean Eustache


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