Word: whores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MOTHER AND THE WHORE has 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...
ORSON WELLES CINEMA, In person: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Eustache for the New England premier of The Mother and the Whore...
...unlike the tough-bitch gun molls of the '30s and '40s. In White Heat, Cody Jarret's wife cheats on him, lies to him, and fears him. She is real. In one scene of Dillinger, Billie goes so far as to slap her man for calling her a whore, but her heart isn't in it. She is completely unbelievable and uninteresting...
...always know the right thing to do-even when he is a minister of the Crown and lolling naked on a bed with a prostitute or two. Last week one of the Queen's Lords of Appeal, Lord Diplock, made a distinction between right and wrong with a whore exquisitely clear in his report on the national-security aspects of Britain's latest sex scandal...
...better when exploited by females rather than males. Just as prostitutes keep their male pimps in flashy suits and opulent cars, they deck out their female bosses in expensive clothing and glittering jewelry. True, the female procurer may keep house and provide a semblance of family life for her whore. But like a male pimp, the female sometimes fakes affection to cajole her prostitute into earning more money, and in some cases beats her into submission...