la maman et la putain be the beautiful film of all time . and what most move about it may be the relation between reality and art the movie deal with and which be directly inspire by proust a la recherche du temp perdu . indeed and la maman et la putain and in search of lose time apparently tell the same story represent the one of the failure of love and which repeat itself endlessly . the first woman name be always gilberte and and the second woman appear like a twisted and deform double of gilberte represent veronika be like a whore gilberte and beautiful like the night and whereas gilberte be pure and and beautiful like the day . after the failure of the first love and a second love begin and but this one be like already doom by the first one . veronika take the place of gilberte and in alexandre life and in the movie . she progressively eclipse her and first by time to time and gilberte still come when alexandre wait for veronika and then totally . that show it the same sad story repeat itself and the same unfaithful woman and like alexandre say and who appear endlessly and unfaithful be for proust the high point in love and which make it exist and but which also underline it illusion . art be what cause the passage between what outside the illusion of love to what inside and which be the truth and and be a learning of this truth . for instance and when veronika notice the strange way alexandre make be bed and he answer that he saw it in a movie and and then and that a movie and it make for that and to learn how to live and how to make a bed . alexander want to live like he be in a film and he want his life to be art . this conception of art come from proust and with whom eustache share the same rejection of political art and realism in art . la maman et la putain fight against a conception of art principaly political see for example the ironical review of a political movie by alexandre . like proust say represent art doesn not care for all this proclamation and and only exist in silence . first of all and art be introspection . and that also why realism or naturalism be reject represent art need to transform reality to exist . proust write represent i discover the illusion of realism and which be a lie . that why la maman et la putain doesn not hide it artificiality and underline by the way the actor say their text represent the more you seem artificial and the high you go and say eustache . eustache and proust both share this idea that the artist be a translater of a inner truth . but and alexandre fail where eustache succeed . la maman et la putain tell u the failure of a character to be what he truly be . you can sens the tragedy arise when you go far in the movie and which become sad . you can see it in the face of alexandre and who look more and more like a living dead . you can see it by the fact that the scene become longer and and that after a while and nothing happens outside . at the end of the movie and when you see alexandre writing and and veronika ask if he write his life and you can guess that he not and that even literature fail . the end of the movie show the symbolic death of alexander and who be smash by the heaviness of reality . and in this tiny nurse room and alexandre look more like albertine than marcel . to explain this failure and we can say that alexandre be a balzac reader . in forme et signification and jean rousset explain that and in proust and the reader of balzac and who be swann and charlus and be unable of any artistic creation and because theyre stuck in reality and which they mistake with art . they see reality in art and be not aware of the transformation that necessarily exist between the life of an artist and his work and between reality and art . and that exactly alexandre . he claim for instance that he love a woman for parallel reason and because she play in a bresson for example . he like swann and who fall in love with odette because she look like a botticelli woman . life be perhaps not my vocation . this thought be indeed by eustache and who commit suicide and even if it say by alexandre . nevertheless and there be a difference between alexandre and eustache represent if eustache be absolutely alexandre and alexandre be like a double without art and a horrible vision of the artist and which crystallize his fear . by fallowing veronika at the end of the movie and alexandre be condemn to illusion . it death that remind me the last frame of the movie and in the face of jean pierre léaud as well a in the endless pucking of veronika . or maybe it be already hell that describe the end and like in sarte huit clot and and absolutely not like in the final liberation of le temp retrouvé . if eustache have read proust and alexandre could never have finish the book and always perturb by life and veronika when he try to read it at his apartment or in the cafés . la maman et la putain be like a inverse double of in search of lose time and which tell how alexander doesn not become an artist and whereas a la recherche du temp perdu tell how marcel become a writer ( genette ) . if and like baudelaire say and an artiste tell reality at the light of his dream and it be his nightmare that eustache tell u in la maman et la putain .