Janus Movies has launched a trailer for the 4K restoration of Jean Eustache’s 1973 opus The Mom and the Whore, which can open at New York’s Movie at Lincoln Heart on June 23.
An official synopsis of the restoration reads:
After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and Could ’68 got here The Mom and the Whore, the legendary, autobiographical magnum opus by Jean Eustache that captured a disillusioned era navigating the post-idealism Seventies inside the microcosm of a ménage à trois. The aimless, clueless, Parisian pseudo-intellectual Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) lives along with his tempestuous older girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), and begins a dalliance with the youthful, sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun, Eustache’s personal former lover), resulting in a unstable open relationship marked by on a regular basis emotional violence and delicate however catastrophic shifts in energy dynamics. Transmitting his personal intercourse life to the display with a startling immediacy, Eustache achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.
The brand new 4K restoration shall be accompanied by a complete retrospective of Eustache’s movies, entitled “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache,” which can run on the theater from July 7-13 and embrace screenings of the director’s second (and last) narrative function, My Little Loves, alongside different mid-length and brief movies helmed by Eustache.
