Feature Film | Drama | France | French | 3h37m
Dir: Jean Eustache | Scr: Jean Eustache | Ph: Pierre Lhomme | Ed: Denise de Casabianca & Jean Eustache | Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard
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In this intimate character study, a verbose, self-centred, twenty-something slacker spends his time openly juggling relationships with two women – with Marie, with whom he lives, and off whom he generally leaches, and with Veronika, a sexually voracious nurse, who is seldom without a lover. The two women, fully aware of each other, take to the situation with apparently nonchalant ease, but tensions inevitably begin to rise with time, bringing their faltering ménage à trois to a head. A film about sex, philosophy, and the philosophy of sex, Jean Eustache’s masterwork – brilliantly written and uncompromisingly shot, and featuring a trio of unshowy yet unforgettable performances – entertains and provokes in equal measure throughout its three hours and thirty-seven minutes short running time.
