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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