In “La Maman et la p**ain” 🎥, Jean Eustache portrays Alexandre, a young Parisian driven by a desire…
Translated from French.
In “La Maman et la p**ain” 🎥 Jean Eustache portrays Alexandre, a young Parisian driven by a desire he mistakes for love 💗 – a serious, sententious man; a mischievous, schoolboyish lad, at times frightened, roaring with laughter, or in tears. The role, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud at the height of his artistry, is written in the same vein as François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. 📽️🎞️
But have you noticed just how much Alexandre… is a Proustian hero? 🤵🏻♂️ At the start of the film (which runs for 3 hours and 30 minutes), Alexandre has just one obsession: winning back his ex-girlfriend, a certain Gilberte 👩🏻🦰. But he mistreated her, humiliated her, even hit her (he admits this to Véronika during a memorable face-to-face scene with the camera, around the middle of the film). Before breaking up with her, he considers holding her captive 🚪🗝️ and, if you pay close attention to the props, you can see him reading a volume of Proust at that moment. Not just any volume: “The Prisoner”. 🪟🎈
The love triangle and Alexandre’s superficial attachment to women whom he seeks above all to possess, or, to put it more crudely, to ‘f**k’ 🫢 may bring to mind the narrator’s indecision between all those young girls in bloom 🌸🌺: Albertine, Gisèle, Rosemonde and the others.
It really is true that when you love Proust, you realise he’s everywhere. 📚🕰️ Jean Eustache’s films are currently available to watch (or rewatch) on @arte.tv! 📺✨
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