Jean Eustache
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Jean Eustache was born on November 30, 1938 in Pessac, Gironde, France. He was a director and editor, known for The Mother and the Whore (1973), Mes Petites Amoureuses (1974) and Les photos d'Alix (1980). He died on November 3, 1981 in Paris, France.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Pessac, Gironde, France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 30, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 05, 1981
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Weekend
Overview: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-29
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The Mother and the Whore
Overview: Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. Marie becomes increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika and as the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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A Dirty Story
Overview: A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
Genres: Documentary Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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The Ministries of Art
Overview: Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-11
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My Little Loves
Overview: Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Céline and Julie Go Boating
Overview: Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-18
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The American Friend
Overview: Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
Overview: Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: “The role of the author in cinema should be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-14
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Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Overview: This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-12
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Odette Robert
Overview: Eustache’s grandmother Odette Robert was a key figure in his life, serving as a substitute mother during much of his childhood (My Little Loves was dedicated to her). In 1971, he recorded an interview with her that went largely unseen until 2003—Eustache never screened the complete film publicly, although a radically truncated version was presented on television. In a string of long, stationary takes, the camera watches over Eustache’s shoulder while he pours countless glasses of whiskey and Odette tells the stories of her life. A number of her themes resonate with those of Eustache’s films: cruelty, male philandering, the Rosière festival of Pessac. Number Zero is a return to origins—of cinema and of the self—and an experiment in narration, both restrained and deeply personal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Overview: Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-22
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Les Roses de la vie
Overview: François Truffaut said of Paul Vecchiali in his early days that he was "the only true heir of Jean Renoir." The first short film of this director, who was to become a singular figure of independent French cinema, follows the path of an elderly woman towards her memories and beyond. Attentive, affectionate and sometimes cruel, Vecchiali's camera invents its own expressive language.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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To Jean Eustache
Overview: Milena Gabanelli sits in her room while listening to one of the last voice recordings of Jean Eustache.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-27
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Numéro zéro
Overview: A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production — he is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the clapboard at the head and tail of the reels, and even takes a phone call. Robert, who was seventy-one, speaks rapidly and tells the story of her life, starting from her early childhood in villages in the Bordeaux region of France. A shorter version of the film ("Odette Robert") was edited in 1980 to be broadcast on television on TF1. The complete film only gained exposure in 2002, when it was salvaged by Boris Eustache, Thierry Lounas, João Bénard da Costa, Jean-Marie Straub, and Pedro Costa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Accompaniment
Overview: A musician has to compose a commissioned work for a film. But his mind is guided by external solicitations that constantly divert him from his work.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-20
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imagenaction
Overview: The confrontation of reality and dream.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-05
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