The Mom and the Whore

the Mom and the Whore is a French film of Jean Eustace carried out in 1973.

Synopsis

Recovering with difficulty from a rupture with Gilberte, Alexandre lives with Marie. Poor idler but, his timetable filled well is devoted to chattering, with his friends, his knowledge, his mistresses and his ex-mistresses. One day with the Coffee of Flora, it meets Veronika, a nurse.

Data sheet

Title: the Mom and the Whore
Scenario and dialogs: Jean Eustace
Image: Pierre Lhomme
Sound: Jean-Pierre Ruh
Assembly: Jean Eustace
Producing: Pierre Cottrell
Production: Elite Films, Qua Movies Not, Films of the Rhombus, Simar Films, V.M. Productions.
Lasted: 220 minutes
Black and white
Year: 1973

Distribution

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Alexandre
Bernadette Lafont: Marie
Francoise Lebrun: Veronika
Isabelle Weingarten: Gilberte
Jacques Fox: the friend of Alexandre
Jean-Christmas Picq: in love one with Offenbach
Jean-Claude Biette
Pierre Cottrell
Jean Douchet
Douchka
Bernard Eisenschitz
Jean Eustace
Caroline Loeb
Andre Techine
No5el Simsolo

Comment

Last film emblematic of the New wave, the Mom and the Whore astonishes by her shifted set of themes: whereas the company asserts a redefinition of the reports/ratios in love, the film of Jean Eustace is completed on a very traditional proposal, and shows the sadness of a certain “sexual freedom” or despair related to the Voluntary interruption of pregnancy. Jealousy, feeling that each one affects to evacuate, striking in its turn each main character of film.

The play of the actors, which seems with a little false departure - they recite a text theatrical, very written, very far away from the spoken language - leads to finish with very intense scenes, like the long monolog of Veronika at the end of film, or, a little earlier, the account of its rupture with Gilberte by Alexandre.

Á its exit, the film will create an important scandal for various reasons. Its title, to start, and its various posters which evoke the love with three; its judged set of themes reactionary by the generation soixante-huitarde: emblems of the left are made fun - Sartre is treated of alcoholic, Duclos of rat - and the watchword “enjoy! ” is turned over against itself; its commonplace, finally, in certain dialogs and certain scenes as that where Alexandre must remove a plug in Veronika.

External bond

In 1996, the monolog of Francoise Lebrun drawn from film was put in music by the Toulouse group Diabologum in its album #3 .

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