The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Eustache's 1973 French three-and-a-half-hour relationship drama. Post-1968 disillusionment captured in continuous long takes.
Bernadette Lafont appeared in Truffaut’s first short and became a fixture of the French New Wave, working with Chabrol, Truffaut and Eustache. The Mother and the Whore gives her one of three leads in a film that runs three and a half hours on conversation. She won a César for La Fiancée du Pirate.
Bernadette LafontEustache's 1973 French three-and-a-half-hour relationship drama. Post-1968 disillusionment captured in continuous long takes.
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