'' The Mother and the Whore '' is considered Eustache 's masterpiece , and was called the best film of the 1970s by '' Cahiers du cinéma . '' It won the Grand Prix of the Jury and the FIPRESCI prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival . The film created a scandal at the Cannes Film Festival , as many critics saw the film as immoral and obscene or , in the words of the broadsheet '' Le Figaro , '' " an insult to the nation " , while '' Télé-7-Jours '' called it a " monument of boredom and a Himalaya of pretension " . On its initial run the film sold over 343,000 tickets in France
1973 Cannes Film Festival
1973 Cannes Film Festival
The Mother and the Whore