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The mother and the whore La maman et la putain

The mother and the whore La maman et la putain

Blu-ray 1973

The pinnacle of this innovative style, The Mother and the Whore follows Alexandre, a Parisian pseudo-intellectual who lives with his tempestuous girlfriend, Marie, even as he begins a dalliance with the sexually liberated Veronika, 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 pro...

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Foreign films
Love triangles
Man-woman relationships France Paris Fiction
Motion pictures, French
Non-monogamous relationships Fiction
Sexual ethics Fiction
Sexual relationships
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction
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ISBN:
9798886072297
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition
Description:
1 videodisc (218 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
wide screen
HDTV
video file
Blu-ray video
region A
Target Audience Note:
Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated
Other Title:
Maman et la putain
La maman et la putain
Maman et la putain (Motion picture)
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973
Special features: Featurettes; theatrical trailer
Title from container
Photography, Pierre L'Homme ; editors, Jean Eustache and Denise de Casabianca
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bernadette Lafont, Francoise Lebrun
Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.37:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural
For private home use only
Audio tracks in French, with optional subtitles in English
Control Number:
3355248
UPC:
715515307611
Other Authors:
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Eustache, Jean, 1938-1981, film director, film producer, screenwriter
Lafont, Bernadette, actor
Lebrun, Françoise, actor
Léaud, Jean-Pierre, 1944- actor
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