If you loved My Little Loves, try The Mother and the Whore

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Jean Eustache, and they both carry the bittersweet, outsider mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to My Little Loves, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Mother and the Whore is

Jean Eustache checks in with the Parisian ennui of the early 1970s. Alexandre floats between his stable girlfriend Marie and Veronika, a nurse with a self-destructive streak. The women's tolerance for Alexandre's dithering eventually expires. It's a long three and a half hours, but that's what Eustache was going for.

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