The Mother and the Whore [4K UHD] [US]

Release Date: 14/1/2025

After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and the upheavals of May 1968 came the near religiously revered magnum opus by Jean Eustache. In his long-unavailable body of work, ranging from documentaries about his native village to closely autobiographical narrative films, Eustache pioneered a forthright and fearless brand of realism. The pinnacle of this innovative style, The Mother and the Whore follows Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a Parisian pseudo-intellectual who lives with his tempestuous girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), even as he begins a dalliance with the sexually liberated Veronika (Françoise Lebrun), leading the three into an emotionally turbulent love triangle. Through daringly sustained long takes and confessional dialogue, Eustache captures a generation navigating the disillusionment of the 1970s, and in the process achieves an intimacy so deep it cuts.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATION, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K Blu-ray disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New interview with actor Françoise Lebrun
• New conversation with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin and writer Rachel Kushner
• Program on the film's restoration
• Segment from the French television series Pour le cinéma featuring Lebrun, director Jean Eustache, and actors Bernadette Lafont and Jean-Pierre Léaud
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Lucy Sante