The Mother and the Whore
Drama, Romance
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1973
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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.
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Details
Runtime:
219 min
Release date:
17 May 1973
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
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
fresh:
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.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2014