Really crystallized for me why I don’t really like Eggers’ ouerve. He has an admirable dedication to craftsmanship—both at the level of image and production—but it’s all for no reason other than to show you that he can or that he knows his film history (the various forced Murnau references strewn throughout the film come to mind here.) The images serve no organic purpose and they aren’t even particularly *inventive* images qua images. They are, rather, almost workmanlike in their…
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The Mother and the Whore 1973
A tonally complex portrayal of post-‘68 bohemian ennui. Set in the Paris of the early ‘70s, it follows the travails and absurdities of a rather unromantic ménage a trois among literary types.
The most striking choice on Eustache’s part is not the frank discussion of sex and relationships, but rather the insistence on filming everything, including the outdoor scenes, relatively close-up—you really are stuck with these aimless people. Another interesting facet of the film is how much of the screenplay…
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