Fresh
Maddening and brilliant, confessional and slyly evasive, insistently perverse and blissfully naive.
Dave Kehr, New York Daily News
The Mother and the Whore
1973 · 3h 39m · Not Rated
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jean Eustache
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The Mother and the Whore
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Jean Eustache Director
- Jean-Pierre Léaud as Alexandre
- Bernadette Lafont as Marie
- Françoise Lebrun as Veronika
- Isabelle Weingarten as Gilberte
- Jacques Renard as Alexandre's Friend
- Jean-Noël Picq as Offenbach's Fan
- Berthe Granval as Marie's Friend
- Geneviève Mnich as Veronika's Friend
- Jessa Darrieux as The friend with the injured hand
- Marinka Matuszewski Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
94%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Mother and the Whore is a harrowing psychodrama of destruction.
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
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
Fresh
A classic that remains as burningly alive and shocking today as it was in 1973.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Jean Eustache's monumental The Mother and the Whore... stands the test of time magnificently.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
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