La maman et la putain 1973

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A classic that remains as burningly alive and shocking today as it was in 1973. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Jean Eustache's monumental The Mother and the Whore... stands the test of time magnificently. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Leaud brings a brutal emotional honesty to the role of Alexandre. Read more

Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine: The Mother and the Whore is a harrowing psychodrama of destruction. Read more

Nora Sayre, New York Times: It's tempting to mail the director a list of complaints as long as his movie. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The film's brilliance lies in its reluctance to pass judgment on its characters, put them through some sort of arbitrary plot, or make them hit their marks. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A major work, not because of its exhausting length or the audacity, brilliance, and total originality of its language, but because of... Jean Eustache's breathtaking honesty and accuracy in portraying the sexual and intellectual mores of its era. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Daily News: Maddening and brilliant, confessional and slyly evasive, insistently perverse and blissfully naive. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie is long, and here and there it seems to meander. But when it arrives at its anguished last scene, there's no doubt that Eustache knew where he was heading all along. Read more

Verina Glaessner, Time Out: Three-and-a-half hours of people talking about sex sounds like a recipe for boredom; in Eustache's hands, it is anything but. Read more

Amy Taubin, Village Voice: Three and a half hours long, The Mother and the Whoreis both epic and intimate, ethnographic in its cultural detail and subjective in its exposure of the raw nerves of body and psyche. Read more