Jean-Pierre Léaud's Anachronism: The Crisis of Masculinity in Jean Eustache's La Maman et la putain

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

“…The present writer has two articles – ‘“Pratiquement plus rien d’intéressant ne se passe”’: Jean Eustache’s La Maman et la putain ’, referred to earlier, and ‘The mother, the whore and the dandy’, published in Sight and Sound to coincide with the film’s 1997 re-release (Reader, 1997). More recently Susan Weiner has published an article focusing on Jean-Pierre Léaud’s performance (Weiner, 2002), and in the same year Jérôme Game gave a London conference paper, seemingly unpublished, entitled ‘Political French cinema of the 1970s: the case of Jean Eustache.’ To these can be added sundry reviews and occasional pieces online, but otherwise the cupboard appears dispiritingly bare.…”