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Overview

User Rating:
8.2/10   902 votes
Director:
Jean Eustache
Writer:
Jean Eustache (scenario and dialogue)
Release Date:
6 July 1973 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
The beginning of a new French film more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Mother and the Whore (USA)
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Runtime:
Argentina:218 min | Japan:220 min | UK:215 min | USA:210 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Company:
Elite Films more

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Trivia:
This film is based on the real-life relationship between director Jean Eustache and actress Francoise Lebrun (who plays Veronika). more
Goofs:
Continuity: While reading the book of Gestapo at his friend's home, Alexandre is holding a cigarette in his right hand in the close-up. In the next shot he is only holding the book. more
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Referenced in Passagers, Les (1999) more

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
The beginning of a new French film, 11 February 2002

I put off reviewing it for quite a while; I just couldn't come to terms with its rejection of the New Wave. Eustache has given us the talkiest movie ever, if you except those marathon Rivette films from the same period (I survived a showing of Out One: Spectre).

The camera doesn't move: it is parked in front of the actors in cafes and restaurants. The close camera placement forces us to concentrate on the conversations, which are monologues by Alexandre interspersed with explosions from Veronika. The romantic word-spinning from Alexandre is of this ilk: "The day I stop suffering, I'll have become someone else," or "In May 1968 a whole cafe was crying. It was beautiful. A tear gas bomb had exploded... a crack in reality had opened up," or most poetically, "I don't do anything, I let time do it." The retorts from Veronika are sometimes astonishing in their savagery: "Watch out, you'll push in my Tampax."; "I've screwed the maximum of Jews and Arabs."; (serving tea)"I like the feel of a prick against my ass, even if it's soft. One sugar or two?" It's as if a Proust character somehow left his drawing room to go slumming with a woman out of L-F Celine's Death on the Installment Plan.

This film ought to be seen by anyone interested in French film of that period--the 70's--but be aware of the static, slow-moving nature of the work.

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