Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Maddening and brilliant, confessional and slyly evasive, insistently perverse and blissfully naive.
– Dave Kehr,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2014
fresh:
The Mother and the Whore is a harrowing psychodrama of destruction.
– Jay Cocks,
TIME Magazine,
22 May 2014
fresh:
Three and a half hours long, The Mother and the Whoreis both epic and intimate, ethnographic in its cultural detail and subjective in its exposure of the raw nerves of body and psyche.
– Amy Taubin,
Village Voice,
22 May 2014
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A classic that remains as burningly alive and shocking today as it was in 1973.
– Michael Wilmington,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2014
fresh:
Jean Eustache's monumental The Mother and the Whore... stands the test of time magnificently.