Word: lafont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eustache is aware of the difficulties of making a three-and-a-half hour film that doesn't make a moral point or offer a strong emotional appeal. He is constantly teasing the audience about its desire for an easy way out. At one point Marie (Bernadette Lafont) quietly gets up and goes into the bathroom where she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, and Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Leaud) panics. When, later on, Alexandre himself gets up and goes to the medicine cabinet, you expect him to do something equally dramatic--to slash his wrists, for example. Instead he sprays...
...geometry of the relationship is a familiar triangle. A young man, Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is involved with two women: a nurse named Veronika (Francoise Lebrun), who titillates him with stories of her rampant promiscuity, and an older woman, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), with whom Alexandre shares an apartment. Alexandre has a kind of glib charm. He is garrulous, eccentric, at ease with his chronic unemployment, and exhilarated by the way in which he can play off his women against each other. For themselves, the women accept his rules and compete for Alexandre with a sort of sidelong intensity...
...been picked up for theatrical distribution in the U.S. That may be somewhat surprising, in view of its intimidating length (more than 3 ½ hours) and rigidly intimate scope: mostly three characters, a young man (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a young girl (Franchise Lebrun) and an older woman (Bernadette Lafont), toying with one another, taunting and seducing one another, finally vanquishing one another. The movie is direct and relentless, full of tough insight about the rites of what sometimes passes for love, and fierce in its final impact. Director Jean Eustache wrote the painstakingly accurate script and followed it exactly, though...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA, In person: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Eustache for the New England premier of The Mother and the Whore...
...rest of the world. U.S. Travel Service officials calculate that they will leave behind some $3.7 billion this year, thus helping considerably to offset the $6.2 billion that U.S. tourists are expected to spend abroad in 1973. More important, most will return home to echo the sentiments of Suzy Lafont-and thereby ratify the ultimate value of national hospitality. Says she: "All our friends are waiting for us to return and tell them about our trip. We are going to make very good propaganda for America...