The Mother and the Whore
1973
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| Planfilm | Release Date: October 5, 1973 |
Starring:
Bernadette Lafont, Berthe Granval, Françoise Lebrun, Geneviève Mnich, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard, Jean-Noël Picq, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jessa Darrieux, Marinka Matuszewski
Summary:
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women, including the maternal Marie and the sexually liberated Veronika, in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
It’s a historical marker in a way that few other films are — not only the nail in the coffin of the French New Wave and one of the strongest statements about the aftermath of the failed French revolution of May 1968, but also a definitive expression of the closing in of Western culture after the end of the era generally known as the 60s.
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As a record of a kind of everyday Parisian life, the film is superb. We think of the cafes of Paris as hotbeds of fiery philosophical debate, but more often, I imagine, they are just like this: people talking, flirting, posing, drinking, smoking, telling the truth and lying, while waiting to see if real life will ever begin.
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