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Film · 1973 · Drama
The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et La Putain)
Directed by Jean Eustache
1973
France
★ 5.8 editorial score
Nearly four hours of three people talking in Paris apartments, and nothing else defines what happened after 1968 so exactly: Eustache made it once and never made anything like it again.
“Jean Eustache’s "The Mother and the Whore" is a movie shot in Paris, but it could have been shot on just about any big American campus. It is not so much about Paris as about a milieu of young people who live lives of bohemian liberation and are bored. They get drunk and sleep around and never, somehow, connect with anything that seems to make a difference.”
