Selected for Letterboxd Video Store by guest curator Richard Linklater

THE MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION.

In post-1968 Paris, a drifting young intellectual entangles himself in an emotionally volatile triangle between his older partner and a fiercely independent woman, exposing contradictions between desire, freedom, and commitment.

Jean Eustache’s first feature film won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival but has been long unavailable and near-mythic in reputation. Critics of the film found it obscene and pretentious, yet it was named the best film of the 1970s by the French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Presented here in 4K, its historical and cultural weight remains undiminished.

In French with English subtitles available.