La Maman et la Putain aka The Mother and the Wh**e 1973

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French language *** WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ***

DIRECTOR: Jean Eustache
CAST: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Francoise Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont, Isabelle Weingarten

One of the most important French films of the 1970s, Jean Eustache's marathon drama focuses on three twenty-something Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish nurse (Françoise Lebrun) whom he picked up at a café and with whom he begins a desultory affair. Clocking in at over 3 1/2 hours, the movie focuses less on plot than on the confused and ambivalent interrelations of these three lost souls. As such, it becomes a searing document of the aftermath of Paris's social and sexual revolutions of the Sixties, particularly the uprisings of May 1968. These characters know that they are supposed to be free and liberated, but they don't quite know how to go about it, or how to make it work in practice, and their efforts don't seem to make them any happier. This experimental classic is an unforgettable, and historically indispensable, experience.

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