Jean Eustache’s La Maman et la putain: A film maudit twice over?

This article examines the reasons why the label of film maudit is all too applicable to Jean Eustache’s nowadays little-known masterpiece La Maman et la putain, offering a succinct overview of the director’s career and the film as well as situating it within the time of its making and release and an...

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Published inFrench cultural studies Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 360 - 366
Main Author Reader, Keith
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.11.2018
Subjects
film maudit
Jean Eustache
secondary sources
cult film
distribution
unavailability
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Summary:This article examines the reasons why the label of film maudit is all too applicable to Jean Eustache’s nowadays little-known masterpiece La Maman et la putain, offering a succinct overview of the director’s career and the film as well as situating it within the time of its making and release and analysing its subsequent distributional vicissitudes. Along with a brief scrutiny of what exactly might be meant by the term film maudit, it offers an analysis of the reasons why the film’s accessibility is so restricted and a summary of available (and not-so-available) secondary sources dealing with it.
ISSN:0957-1558
1740-2352
DOI:10.1177/0957155818791299