The Mother and the Whore
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| - | '''''The Mother and the Whore''''' (French '''La maman et la putain''') is a [[1973 in film|1973]] [[Cinema of France|French]] film directed by [[Jean Eustache]]. It is one of the most important French films of its decade. | + | '''''The Mother and the Whore''''' (French '''La maman et la putain''') is a [[1973 in film|1973]] [[Cinema of France|French]] film directed by [[Jean Eustache]]. It is one of the most important French films of its decade and an extended essay on the [[Madonna-whore complex]]. |
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The Mother and the Whore (French La maman et la putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. It is one of the most important French films of its decade and an extended essay on the Madonna-whore complex.
Plot
Clocking in at over 3½ hours, this marathon drama focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre Jean-Pierre Léaud is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend Bernadette Lafont and a Polish nurse Françoise Lebrun whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair. The film focuses less on plot than on the confused and ambivalent interrelations of these three lost souls.
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