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The Mother and the Whore is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Eustache released in USA on 5 october 1973 with Bernadette Lafont

The Mother and the Whore (1973)

The Mother and the Whore
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Released in USA 5 october 1973
Length 3h40
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating77% 3.893193.893193.893193.893193.89319

The Mother and the Whore (French: La Maman et la Putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examining the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.

Synopsis

The film focuses on three twenty-somethings in an unconventional love triangle in Paris during the summer of 1972. Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed young man involved with both a live-in girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and the Polish nurse Veronika (Françoise Lebrun). He had picked up Veronika at a café after an unsuccessful reconciliation with a former love, Gilberte (Isabelle Weingarten). With Veronika, he begins a desultory affair. Although Marie affirms her indifference to Alexandre's affairs, she quickly changes her mind when she sees how close he becomes to Veronika. This leads to a growing estrangement between her and Alexandre.

Actors

Bernadette Lafont

(Marie)Jean-Pierre Léaud

(Alexandre)Françoise Lebrun

(Veronika)Isabelle Weingarten

(Gilberte)Jacques Renard

(Alexandre's Friend)
And :
Jean-Noël Picq
Jean-Claude Biette
Pierre Cottrell
Jean Douchet
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