The Mother and the Whore - Blu-Ray

After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and the upheavals of May 1968 came the near religiously revered magnum opus by Jean Eustache. In his long-unavailable body of work, ranging from documentaries about his native village to closely autobiographical narrative films, Eustache pioneered a forthright and fearless brand of realism. The pinnacle of this innovative style, The Mother and the Whore follows Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a Parisian pseudo-intellectual who lives with his tempestuous girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), even as he begins a dalliance with the sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), leading the three into an emotionally turbulent love triangle. Through daringly

sustained long takes and confessional dialogue, Eustache captures a generation navigating the disillusionment of the 1970s, and in the process achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.

Film Info

· France

· 1973

· 218 minutes

· Black & White

· 1.37:1

· French

· Spine #1245

 

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

· New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

· New interview with actor Françoise Lebrun

· New conversation with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin and writer Rachel Kushner

· Program on the film’s restoration

· Segment from the French television series Pour le cinéma featuring Lebrun, director Jean Eustache, and actors Bernadette Lafont and Jean-Pierre Léaud

· Trailer

· New English subtitle translation

· PLUS: An essay by critic Lucy Sante and an introduction to the film by Eustache

· New cover by Eric Skillman