Love triangle: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun and the late Bernadette Lafont in The Mother and the Whore Photo: Les Films du Losange The Cannes Classic section will showcase a restored copy of Jean Eustache’s groundbreaking The Mother And The Whore in the presence of actors Françoise Lebrun and Jean-Pierre Léaud.
Also in attendance on 17 May in the Debussy Theatre will be the director’s son Boris Eustache who was born in 1960 and worked on his father’s second feature and appears as an actor in Eustache’s short film Les photos d’Alix. He supervised the restoration.
The film which will be re-released in French cinemas after the Festival, is considered one of the key works of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema. Eustache tragically shot himself in his Paris apartment just a few weeks before his 43rd birthday, leaving a legacy of two features and numerous shorts. The director...
Also in attendance on 17 May in the Debussy Theatre will be the director’s son Boris Eustache who was born in 1960 and worked on his father’s second feature and appears as an actor in Eustache’s short film Les photos d’Alix. He supervised the restoration.
The film which will be re-released in French cinemas after the Festival, is considered one of the key works of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema. Eustache tragically shot himself in his Paris apartment just a few weeks before his 43rd birthday, leaving a legacy of two features and numerous shorts. The director...
- 5/2/2022
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As exciting as the new films premiering at Cannes Film Festival is its Classics section, featuring new restorations as well as documentaries spotlighting film history. They’ve now unveiled their 2022 lineup which most notably includes the new, much-anticipated restoration of Jean Eustache’s masterpiece The Mother and the Whore, which it looks like Janus Films has picked up for a U.S. run later this year.
The lineup also includes new restorations of films by Satyajit Ray, Vittorio de Sica, Aravindan Govindan, Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Glauber Rocha, Vera Chytilová, and more, alongside new documentaries on Romy Schneider, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cissé, and beyond. Check out the full list below.
The Mother and the Whore back in the theater!
La Maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore)
Jean Eustache
1972, 3h40, France
4K digital restoration of The Mother and the Whore was done in 2022 by Les Films du Losange,...
The lineup also includes new restorations of films by Satyajit Ray, Vittorio de Sica, Aravindan Govindan, Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Glauber Rocha, Vera Chytilová, and more, alongside new documentaries on Romy Schneider, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cissé, and beyond. Check out the full list below.
The Mother and the Whore back in the theater!
La Maman et la putain (The Mother and the Whore)
Jean Eustache
1972, 3h40, France
4K digital restoration of The Mother and the Whore was done in 2022 by Les Films du Losange,...
- 5/2/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
This year’s line-up will also celebrate classics such as Singin’ In The Rain and Indian director Satyajit Ray’s 1970 work The Adversary.
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 highlights include two episodes of the series The Last Movie Stars directed by Ethan Hawke about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; a screening of Singin’ In The Rain to coincide with the 70th anniversary of its release and a restored 4K version of Vittorio de Sica’s 1946 work Sciuscià.
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 highlights include two episodes of the series The Last Movie Stars directed by Ethan Hawke about Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman; a screening of Singin’ In The Rain to coincide with the 70th anniversary of its release and a restored 4K version of Vittorio de Sica’s 1946 work Sciuscià.
- 5/2/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Influential filmmaker’s best-known film is 1973 Cannes grand jury winner ’The Mother And The Whore’.
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 the late filmmaker’s son Boris Eustache is a coup for Les Films du Losange’s new co-heads Charles Gillibert and Alexis Dantec who recently took over the company, which was established in 1962 by New Wave directors Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.
It brings an end to a dispute blocking the exploitation of the filmography for several decades,...
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 the late filmmaker’s son Boris Eustache is a coup for Les Films du Losange’s new co-heads Charles Gillibert and Alexis Dantec who recently took over the company, which was established in 1962 by New Wave directors Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.
It brings an end to a dispute blocking the exploitation of the filmography for several decades,...
- 1/20/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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