When Jean Eustache's "The Mother and the Whore" was released in 1973, young audiences all over the world embraced its layabout hero and his endless conversations with the woman he lived with, the woman he was dating, the woman who rejected him and various other women encountered in the cafes of Paris. The character was played by Jean-Pierre Leaud, star of "The 400 Blows" and two other autobiographical films by Francois Truffaut. In 1977, Truffaut made "The Man Who Loved Women." This one could have been titled "The Man Who Loved to Hear Himself Talk." At 3 1/2 hours, the film is long, but its essence is to be long: Make it any shorter and it would have a plot and an outcome, when in fact Eustache simply wants to record an existence. Alexandre (Leaud), his hero, lives with Marie (Bernadette Lafont), a boutique owner who apparently supports him; one would say he was between jobs if there were any sense that he'd ever had one. He meets a blin
Godard and his young heroes in Masculine-Feminine.
We went seeking greatness in movies, and were most often disappointed. We waited for a movie like the one we wanted to make, and secretly wanted to live. That s the line I remember best from Jean-Luc Godard s Masculine-Feminine, and not the more famous We are the children of Marx and Coca-Cola.
When we found a movie like the one we secretly wanted to live, we did not even seek greatness; greatness could take care of itself. The joke at the center of Masculine-Feminine (1966) is that its young French characters were fascinated by America, and its young American audiences were fascinated by them. When the movie came out, we all focused on Marx and Coca-Cola but now I see that the operative word is children.
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The seven-hour silent movie starred French actress Musidora as a character called Irma Vep, whose name is an anagram for Vampire.
In Olivier s movie, Les Vampires is being remade by a has-been French director who casts Maggie as Irma and becomes infatuated with her.
Source material: The show will star Alicia, 32, in a role loosely based on the one played by Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung in the film
Silver fox: Olivier Assayas who wrote and directed the original movie is returning to the same jobs for the television version, Deadline reports
Not only does she become an object of lust for the director played by Jean-Pierre Leaud but also the costume designer played by Nathalie Richard.