Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten

A young, poetic intellectual who lives with a slightly older woman, picks up and begins an affair with a sexually open nurse. The three develop relations while engaging in lengthy conversations and an...( read more  read more... )ecdote telling amidst small Paris apartments and the famed cafes of left bank.

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Unrated, 3 hrs. 35 min.

Directed by: Jean Eustache

Release Date: January 1, 1973

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  • November 23, 2008
    Les avorteurs sont les nouveaux Robin des bois, ils délivrent les femmes de cette chose ignoble qu'elles ont dans le ventre
  • August 30, 2008
    A humongous effort,this 4-hour epic,unsettling,long dialogue is one of the finest pieces of post-nouvelle vague in the history of world cinema.I hate the main character.And it's ironic because it's somehow flamboyant....the way he rejects the emotional state of the women in his l...( read more)ife.Life as a big joke or as a wee bit of adventure simultaneously.One of cinema's most thrilling triplets.
  • January 25, 2009
    PAN AND SCAN. Interesante, insoportable, perceptiva, fascinante, laaaaarga, neurótica, autocomplacida, reflexiva hasta la humildad y la náusea... Son adjetivos que describen tanto a sus personajes--en especial el protagonista masculino--como a la película misma, y la apreciación ...( read more)que de ella se tenga dependerá, irremediablemente, de la tolerancia que se tenga a aquellos. / Interesting, unbearable, perceptive, fascinating, loooong, neurotic, selfsatisifed, selfreflective to the point of humility and nausea too... These are adejectives that describe the characters--especially the male protagonist-- as well as the movie, so, unavoidably, the appreciation one has for the film will depend on the one felt for them.
  • January 3, 2009
    I think I saw this before.
  • February 5, 2008
    One of the best films ever made, especially French New Wave.
  • June 13, 2006
    Félicitation Jeff pour avoir ajouter ce film dans la banque de donné!!!!! À mon tour maintenant d'ajouter des films de Bertrand Blier...
  • June 6, 2006
    Fantastique!!! C'est moi qui l'a fait rajouté dans la banque de données!

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