Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun in "The Mother and the Whore." (Courtesy FLC Press) It feels like for as long as I’ve been reading about movies, I’ve been reading about “The ...

Jean Eustache — who killed himself in 1982 at age 42 — was one off the most important, provocative French filmmakers of the postwar era. He has often been called the French John Cassavetes. He also ...

In “The Mother and The Whore”, the fulcrum of the sexual triad is a male intellectual — perhaps a journalist, perhaps just a malcontent — named Alexandre. This character is best viewed not only as a ...

French film company Les Films du Losange has acquired the entire catalogue of influential post-New Wave director Jean Eustache, comprising five feature-length works and six short films. The deal with ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

One of the prime entries in this year’s edition of the New York Film Festival (which runs from September 30th to October 16th) is a movie that played there in 1973, “The Mother and the Whore” (October ...

The French New Wave was as much a revolution in performance as in direction. The young critics turned filmmakers behind such audaciously original films as “The 400 Blows,” “Breathless,” and “The ...

Eustache, who made his mark on French cinema with The Mother and the Whore (1973) and committed suicide eight years later, is said to have revealed more of himself on-screen than in real life. As a ...

Late French filmmaker Jean Eustache’s recently restored cult 1973 drama The Mother And The Whore will open Cannes Classics this year, the line-up for which was announced on Monday (May 2). Other ...

Throughout July, TIFF will rediscover the long-unseen influential work of Jean Eastache. Dirty Stories: The Films of Jean Eustache presents the Canadian premiere and complete retrospective in all 12 ...