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The Mother and the Whore is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Eustache released in USA on 5 october 1973 with Bernadette Lafont
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
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Add to a movie listThe Mother and the Whore (French: La Maman et la Putain) is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examining the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.
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The film focuses on three twenty-somethings in an unconventional love triangle in Paris during the summer of 1972. Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed young man involved with both a live-in girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and the Polish nurse Veronika (Françoise Lebrun). He had picked up Veronika at a café after an unsuccessful reconciliation with a former love, Gilberte (Isabelle Weingarten). With Veronika, he begins a desultory affair. Although Marie affirms her indifference to Alexandre's affairs, she quickly changes her mind when she sees how close he becomes to Veronika. This leads to a growing estrangement between her and Alexandre.Actors
Bernadette Lafont
(Marie)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
(Alexandre)
Françoise Lebrun
(Veronika)
Isabelle Weingarten
(Gilberte)
Jacques Renard
(Alexandre's Friend)
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