The Mother and the Whore（4K Restoration）
Nominees and Awards
- ★ 1973 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize of the Jury, FIPRESCI Prize
- ★ 1973 Berlin International Film Festival Interfilm Award - Recommendation Forum of New Cinema
Synopsis
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 lives with his tempestuous older girlfriend, Marie, and begins a dalliance with the younger, sexually liberated Veronika , leading to a volatile open relationship marked by everyday emotional violence and subtle but catastrophic shifts in power dynamics.
Team
Director
Jean EUSTACHE
Jean EUSTACHE was born on November 30, 1938 in Pessac, Gironde, France. He was an editor and director, known for La maman et la putain (1973), Mes petites amoureuses (1974) and Les photos d'Alix (1980). He died on November 3, 1981 in Paris, France.
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