LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN
Alexandre, a penniless intellectual, Its confessional intensity and frank language produces a film of enormous insight and intensity, which has become the summation of the entire French New Wave. ________________________________________________________
spends his time in Left Bank cafés and
agonising over two women: his mistress
Marie who supports him even though she
is aware of Veronika, a compulsively pro-
miscuous nurse who slips in and out of
their bed.
The film explores the personal chaos
wrought on French bohemia by post ’68
political disillusion, and the sexual revolution.
Winner of the Grand Special Jury Price at Cannes in 1973, French critics voted LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN as the key film of the decade.