The Mother and the Whore (HKIFF48)
Genre
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Release Date
31 Mar 2024 (Sun)
Category
--- (HK), ---(Macau)
Running Time
219 Minutes
Language
French
Subtitle
Chinese and English
Director
Jean Eustache
Cast
Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun
Synopsis
Through the microcosm of a ménage à trois, Eustache’s autobiographical first feature and magnum opus captures a disillusioned generation living in the hangover of the May ‘68 upheaval and the knottiness of sexual liberation. Nouvelle vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud embodies the self-indulgence of the Parisian pseudo-intellectual, who lives with his older lover while pursuing a younger, sexually liberated nurse. Transmitting his own sex life to the screen with startling immediacy, Eustache bares his soul in a profusion of dialogue and dialectical cinematic language that has become legendary.
Through the microcosm of a ménage à trois, Eustache’s autobiographical first feature and magnum opus captures a disillusioned generation living in the hangover of the May ‘68 upheaval and the knottiness of sexual liberation. Nouvelle vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud embodies the self-indulgence of the Parisian pseudo-intellectual, who lives with his older lover while pursuing a younger, sexually liberated nurse. Transmitting his own sex life to the screen with startling immediacy, Eustache bares his soul in a profusion of dialogue and dialectical cinematic language that has become legendary.
