Out of the Past 2023 / La maman et la putain / France 1973
“I despise people who suffer in silence.” Alexandre is unemployed but he’s still full of opinions and impressions. He lives in an apartment with the older Marie, who owns a boutique. One day at a café he meets Veronika, a nurse. It gradually becomes clear, however, that one bed is too cramped for three people. This monumental yet, at the same time, almost painfully intimate exploration of the relationships between men and women takes place in the cafés and bedrooms of Paris. The spontaneous dialogues and, in particular, the monologues, flow freely like the smoke from cigarettes. Jean-Pierre Léaud again serves as the director’s alter ego, this time in Jean Eustache’s most celebrated film.
Ondřej Kopřiva
210 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Jean Eustache
/ Screenplay Jean Eustache
/ Dir. of Photography Pierre Lhomme
/ Sound Jean-Pierre Ruh, Paul Lainé
/ Editor Jean Eustache, Denise de Casabianca
/ Producer Pierre Cottrell
/ Production Elite Films
/ Coproduction Ciné Qua Non, Les Films du Losange, Simar Films, V.M. Productions
/ Cast Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard
/ Sales Les Films du Losange
Jean Eustache (1938, Pessac, France – 1981, Paris). Selected filmography: Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus, 1966, medium-length), The Mother and the Whore (La maman et la putain, 1973), My Little Loves (Mes petites amoureuses, 1974), A Dirty Story (Une sale histoire, 1977, medium-length), Les photos d’Alix (1980, short).
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