i decide to watch this because of the recommendation from this site . i would have to say it be worth the effort . however and you should take heed that this film will go on for 210 minute . if you do not have the stay power and get it on tape and watch it over a couple of night . now to the film and what i say will contain spoiler and if you do not mind and here go represent alexandre be a promiscuous bum and a womanizer and a gigolo . he live with an old woman call marie . marie own a retail shop and she provide for alex . alex spend his day at cafés and restaurant . the story reveals that alex have previously impregnate gilberte whom he use to live with . gilberte dump him for a less attractive man that she do not love because alex have abuse and batter her . at this point and alex be willing to get a job and and help raise their child before he find out gilberte have abort it and plan to marry someone else . by chance and alexandre meet a nurse nymph call veronika and they strike up a relationship . veronika fell in love with alex for the first time after all the sordid sex she have with men in the past . marie and veronika struggle for alex affection and have a ménage à trois to boot . finally at the end and it reveal veronika be pregnant with alex child and alex ask her to marry him . we assume ( a aforesaid with gilberte situation ) alexandre will even get a job and be the provider for his new find love and family . there be hope . with the title of la maman et la putain and i deduce jean eustache be relate to françoise lebrun character of veronika . she be a whore and then she become the mother . hence and the mother and whore be the same person . anyway and what do i know . french film be mostly ( not all ) very chatty and aimlessly political and preach and theatrical and insipid and lamenting and full of quote . lebrun and léaud play their obdurate character well and hold the film together a some part of the script become a little lost and disjoint . not a bad effort . positive .