We’re re-launching our popular Anniversary Classics Abroad series, screening superb foreign films once or twice a month at our West L.A., Glendale, Claremont and Newhall theaters.
First up, The Mother and the Whore, newly restored. After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and May ’68 the legendary, autobiographical magnum opus by Jean Eustache captured a disillusioned generation navigating the post-idealism 1970s within the microcosm of a ménage à trois. The aimless, clueless, Parisian pseudo-intellectual Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) lives with his tempestuous older girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), and begins a dalliance with the younger, sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun, Eustache’s own former lover), leading to a volatile open relationship marked by everyday emotional violence and subtle but catastrophic shifts in power dynamics. Transmitting his own sex life to the screen with a startling immediacy, Eustache achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.
“A classic that remains as burningly alive and shocking today as it was in 1973.” ~ Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
“The Mother and the Whore made an enormous impact when it was released. It still works a quarter-century later because it was so focused on its subjects, and lacking in pretension.” ~ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The full schedule:
July 19 ~ The Mother and the Whore
August 9 ~ The Heroic Trio
August 30 ~ Belle De Jour
September 20 ~ Nowhere in Africa
October 11 ~ Ugetsu
November 1 ~ 8 1/2
November 21 ~ Babette’s Feast
December 13 ~ Fanny & Alexander
Hello, Can you tell us where these movies are shown,or have shown.
We receive laemmle movies mostly each week, but have not heard of any of these movies playing anywhere, WHY?
Hi, we’re playing these films at our West L.A., Glendale, Claremont and Newhall theaters.