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Release Date: Apr 13, 1999; Movie Rated: Unrated; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; Distributor: New Yorker
An epic, impressionistic talkathon, Jean Eustache's 1973 new-wave landmark The Mother and the Whore explores the psychopathology of everyday love. Leaud is a womanizing loafer who spends his days at Left Bank cafes spinning his intellectual wheels. Lafont is the shopkeeper off of whom he sponges, and blank-faced Lebrun the loose nurse he's lately bedding. As the three talk and talk about sex, we're lulled into the rhythms of half-cracked conversations and absorbed by rawness of feeling. B+
Originally posted Apr 16, 1999Published in issue #481 Apr 16, 1999Order article reprints
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