The Mother and the Whore
This recurring cycle is an opportunity to watch or re-watch classics from cinema history, or films representative of certain national cinematographies, trends or eras, on the big screen.
Winner of the Grand prix spécial du jury, 1973 Cannes Film Festival
Considered as the crowning achievement of the French New Wave, Jean Eustache's love triangle epic follows Alexandre, a Parisian intellectual, who shares his affections with his mistress and a promiscuous nurse. Winner of the Grand prix spécial du jury at 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache was a French director. Close to the editorial staff of the Cahiers du cinéma and the filmmakers of the French New Wave, he started directing in 1963 with Les mauvaises fréquentations and then shot, in Narbonne in 1965, Le père Noël a les yeux bleus. In 1972, he directed La maman et la putain, which won the Grand prix spécial du jury at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Following this success, Eustache depicted his childhood in Narbonne in Mes petites amoureuses.
