You may have never heard of him before this summer, but you obviously know him because he caused quite a stir at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Games. Which can also be seen on the big screen today in the feature film My Life My Mouth.
A few years ago the one we just named Catherine He revealed to us what his favorite movie scene was. A scene from Jean Eustace’s The Mother and the Whore, released in theaters in 1973, which he enthusiastically decoded for us!
“I saw it for the first time Mother and whoreI was surprised by the tone, the courage”told us Philip Catherine. “There’s a scene that really made me think because I didn’t think we’d get a chance to do that in the movies. I must have been 17 or 18, I was hallucinating.”
“It made me crazy all of a sudden, life turned around like a glove.”
“It is shot in sequence or Bernadette Lafont He makes a note, then lies down on a chair or bed. We see him in profile.”continues the man who plays the bard Assurancetourix in the latest Asterix film. “We hear the song on the tape, the whole song, three minutes. Nothing happens on the screen because it is still a frame. He’s definitely smoking a cigarette, he’s staring at the ceiling, it’s very minimal and it lasts the whole song. When I saw this, I said to myself, “Wow, this could be a movie. Suddenly, life has been turned upside down.”
“Here’s a scene that jumps out at me because… if you can get past that, it’s good!”concludes Philip Catherine with a smile. “Don’t think it’s boring. After thirty seconds we shouldn’t reject this scene, on the contrary… it’s an idea to let go of the plan, not to suffer from any paranoia, any premonition. Abandon yourself completely to this distraction, to this nothingness, to almost nothingness. (…) It still deserves to be accessible.”
Mother and whore tells the story of Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Leo), a young idler who lives with (and at her expense) MarieBernadette Lafont), a shopkeeper significantly older than her, while she is still in love with Gilberte, a student who refuses her marriage. One day, as he leaves the terrace, he approaches a young woman named Veronica…
“Mother and Whore” Trailer:
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