La Maman et la putain / The Mother and the Whore

Jean Eustache: La Maman et la putain / The Mother and the Whore (FR 1973) with Jean-Pierre Léaud (Alexandre),Françoise Lebrun (Veronika) and Bernadette Lafont (Marie).

Äiti ja huora / Mamman och horan. FR 1973. D+SC: Jean Eustache. DP: Pierre Lhomme – shot on 16 mm – 35 mm blowup print. Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud (Alexandre), Bernadette Lafont (Marie), Françoise Lebrun (Veronika), Isabelle Weingarten (Gilberte), Jacques Renard (friend). 220 min. Vintage print with Finnish / Swedish subtitles. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 12 August 2008. – Revisiting the beginning of this spellbinding film of the flaneur's éducation sentimentale post-1968 in the cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Deux Magots, Flore) and among fascinating women. Still magical.