PART OF CINECITY 2023: Sunday 12 November
2023 at 3:00pm THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE
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: Open Colour is a film group bringing independent, experimental and rarely screened cinema to Brighton, UK. Contact info@opencolour.co.uk Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook OPEN COLOUR'S SCREENING ARCHIVE Open Colour is part of SCREENSHOT - Alternative Screenings Network in Brighton The Open Colour Series was made possible through the support of
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