November Harvest
Scorsese, Eustache, Fincher et alia
Watching
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
French cinema is rife with movies about beautiful miserable people talking a lot and treating each other terribly. Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore may not have done it first, but it does it best. Veronika (Françoise Lebrun) is a nurse who ends up in the romantic orbit of oily, unemployed chatterbox Alexand…