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Jean Eustache is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor French born on 30 november 1938 at Pessac (France)
Jean Eustache (30 November 1938 – 3 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.
In his obituary for Eustache, the influential critic Serge Daney wrote:"In the thread of the desolate 70s, his films succeeded one another, always unforeseen, without a system, without a gap: film-rivers, short films, TV programs, hyperreal fiction. Each film went to the end of its material, from real to fictional sorrow. It was impossible for him to go against it, to calculate, to take cultural success into account, impossible for this theoretician of seduction to seduce an audience."
Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film Broken Flowers to Eustache.
Though not a member of the Nouvelle vague, Eustache maintained ties to it, appearing as an actor in Jean-Luc Godard's Week End and editing Luc Moullet's Une aventure de Billy le Kid, which starred Jean-Pierre Leaud (the lead in Eustache's The Mother and the Whore).
After becoming a filmmaker, Eustache maintained close ties to his friends and relatives in Pessac. In 1981, he was partially immobilized in an auto accident. He killed himself by gunshot in his Paris apartment, a few weeks before his 43rd birthday.
Eustache had a son, Boris Eustache (b. 1960), who worked on his father's second feature and appears as an actor in Eustache's short film Les Photos d'Alix.
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Nationality France
Birth 30 november 1938 at Pessac (France)
Death 5 november 1981 (at 42 years) at Paris (France)
Birth 30 november 1938 at Pessac (France)
Death 5 november 1981 (at 42 years) at Paris (France)
Jean Eustache (30 November 1938 – 3 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.
In his obituary for Eustache, the influential critic Serge Daney wrote:"In the thread of the desolate 70s, his films succeeded one another, always unforeseen, without a system, without a gap: film-rivers, short films, TV programs, hyperreal fiction. Each film went to the end of its material, from real to fictional sorrow. It was impossible for him to go against it, to calculate, to take cultural success into account, impossible for this theoretician of seduction to seduce an audience."
Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film Broken Flowers to Eustache.
Biography
Eustache was born in Pessac, Gironde, France into a working class family. Relatively little information exists about Eustache’s life prior to the time he became a member of the Cahiers du cinéma coterie in the late fifties, though it is known that he was largely self-educated and worked in the railroad service prior to becoming a filmmaker. Information suggests that the mystery surrounding his youth was intentional, with sources stating that "during his lifetime Eustache published little information about his early years, indicating that he felt no nostalgia for an unhappy childhood.".Though not a member of the Nouvelle vague, Eustache maintained ties to it, appearing as an actor in Jean-Luc Godard's Week End and editing Luc Moullet's Une aventure de Billy le Kid, which starred Jean-Pierre Leaud (the lead in Eustache's The Mother and the Whore).
After becoming a filmmaker, Eustache maintained close ties to his friends and relatives in Pessac. In 1981, he was partially immobilized in an auto accident. He killed himself by gunshot in his Paris apartment, a few weeks before his 43rd birthday.
Eustache had a son, Boris Eustache (b. 1960), who worked on his father's second feature and appears as an actor in Eustache's short film Les Photos d'Alix.
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Odette Robert (2003)
, 1h50Directed by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Jean Eustache
Roles Self
Rating78%
En 1971, Jean Eustache filme sa grand-mère Odette Robert, qui fait le récit de sa vie.
Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978)
, 1h50Directed by Michel Such, Luc Béraud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Jean-François Stévenin, Bernadette Lafont, Virginie Thévenet, Claude Miller, Marion Game, Valérie Quennessen
Rating62%
Paul, écrivain qui a connu son moment de notoriété il y a six ans de cela pour son livre Portrait des lieux, est en crise. Ne parvenant ni à écrire malgré son bon vouloir, ni à satisfaire physiquement sa femme Camille qui a abandonné ses études afin d'entretenir le ménage, il décide, devant l'angoisse de la page blanche, de modifier sa vie. Tout en continuant à se faire « materner » par Camille, Paul sort de chez lui, drague les étudiantes dans les cafés, se fait vamper par une ouvreuse de cinéma, se met à fréquenter les thés dansants.
The American Friend (1977)
, 2h7Directed by Emmanuel Clot, Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Transport films, Transport en Île-de-France, Films about psychiatry
Actors Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray, Daniel Schmid
Roles Friendly Man
Rating73%
Tom Ripley (Dennis Hopper) is a wealthy American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he appears at auctions to bid on forged paintings produced by an accomplice, artificially driving up the price. At one of these auctions, he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz), a picture framer who is dying of a rare and unspecified blood disease. Zimmerman refuses to shake Ripley's hand when introduced, coldly saying, "I've heard of you" before walking away.
A Dirty Story (1977)
, 50minutesDirected by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Actors Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Noël Picq, Douchka, Jean Douchet, Françoise Lebrun, Virginie Thévenet
Rating72%
Un homme raconte devant un groupe d'amis comment il est devenu voyeur en regardant par un trou dans les toilettes des dames, et, chemin faisant, ce qu'il pense du sexe des femmes, de sa propre obsession, puis, en fin de compte, pourquoi il n'en conçoit aucune honte ; vers la fin de son récit, il répond à quelques questions.
, 1h47Directed by Serge Dubor
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Michel Bouquet, Bernadette Lafont, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet, Bernadette Le Saché, Élisabeth Lafont
Roles un videur
Rating59%
Vincent vit avec son père, un sculpteur qui a presque perdu la vue. La situation est de plus en plus pesante pour le jeune homme. Sa petite amie le pousse à quitter le domicile paternel en lui trouvant un appartement dans Paris. Vincent accepte. Il s'aperçoit que son père entretient une liaison secrète avec une commissaire priseur, et commence à avoir des doutes sur sa maladie oculaire. Vincent devient de plus en plus jaloux de Bénédicte, qui multiplie les rendez-vous professionnels avec un éditeur...
My Little Loves (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Ingrid Caven, Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne, Caroline Loeb, Henri Martinez, Maurice Pialat
Roles Man on bench (uncredited)
Rating71%
This film is a study of a boy growing up in France. Daniel lives with his grandmother in Pessac outside the city of Bordeaux, sharing a naïve and happy childhood with his friends. After one year of secondary school, Daniel has to go to the city of Narbonne to live with his mother. She is a seamstress living in a small apartment with her lover José, a married Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school. However, his mother cannot afford it and sends him instead to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel learns about girls from observing others in the cinema, on the street, and advice from other boys in town. When he visits his grandmother next year, he returns as a much more mature boy than his old friends.
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
, 3h12Directed by Jacques Rivette
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Actors Dominique Labourier, Juliet Berto, Marie-France Pisier, Bulle Ogier, Barbet Schroeder, Jean Douchet
Roles Spectateur au cabaret/lecteur a la bibliohèque (uncredited)
Rating71%
The film begins with Julie sitting on a park bench reading a book of magic spells when a woman (Céline) walks past, and begins dropping (à la Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit) various possessions. Julie begins picking them up, and tries to follow Céline around Paris, sometimes at a great pace (for instance, sprinting up Montmartre to keep pace with Céline's tram). After adventures following Céline around the Parisian streets — at one point it looks as if they have gone their separate ways, never to meet up again — Céline finally decides to move in with Julie. There are incidents of identity swapping, with Céline pretending to be Julie to meet the latter's childhood sweetheart, for example, and Julie attempting to fill in for Céline at a cabaret audition.
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
, 3h40Directed by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard, Jean-Noël Picq
Roles Man in Sunglasses in Store (uncredited)
Rating77%
The film focuses on three twenty-somethings in an unconventional love triangle in Paris during the summer of 1972. Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is an unemployed young man involved with both a live-in girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and the Polish nurse Veronika (Françoise Lebrun). He had picked up Veronika at a café after an unsuccessful reconciliation with a former love, Gilberte (Isabelle Weingarten). With Veronika, he begins a desultory affair. Although Marie affirms her indifference to Alexandre's affairs, she quickly changes her mind when she sees how close he becomes to Veronika. This leads to a growing estrangement between her and Alexandre.
The Accompaniment (1969)
, 27minutesOrigin France
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors André Téchiné, Édith Scob, Jean Eustache
Un musicien a été chargé de composer la musique d'un film. Son attention est détournée constamment par l'environnement intellectuel dans lequel il travaille.
Weekend (1967)
, 1h35Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films
Actors Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Paul Gégauff, Valérie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Roles L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)
Rating69%
Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are a bourgeois couple, although each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They set out by car for Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary.
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1967)
, 47minutesDirected by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Henri Martinez, René Gilson, Jean Eustache
Rating69%
À Narbonne, aux environs de Noël. Dans l'espoir de pouvoir s'offrir un duffle coat, Daniel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) multiplie les petits boulots. C'est ainsi qu'il accepte la proposition d'un photographe : se déguiser en père Noël pour poser dans la rue avec les passants. Ce qui lui vaut l'occasion d'intéresser les filles sous son déguisement.
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Odette Robert (2003)
, 1h50Directed by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Jean Eustache
Rating78%
En 1971, Jean Eustache filme sa grand-mère Odette Robert, qui fait le récit de sa vie.
Alix's Pictures (1982)
, 19minutesDirected by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Rating66%
Alix Cléo Roubaud, amie de Jean Eustache, commente des photographies qu'elle a faites, mais le lien entre ce qu'elle décrit et ce qui apparaît à l'écran semble de plus en plus complexe.
A Dirty Story (1977)
, 50minutesDirected by Jean Eustache
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary
Actors Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Noël Picq, Douchka, Jean Douchet, Françoise Lebrun, Virginie Thévenet
Rating72%
Un homme raconte devant un groupe d'amis comment il est devenu voyeur en regardant par un trou dans les toilettes des dames, et, chemin faisant, ce qu'il pense du sexe des femmes, de sa propre obsession, puis, en fin de compte, pourquoi il n'en conçoit aucune honte ; vers la fin de son récit, il répond à quelques questions.
The Pig (1975)
, 50minutesDirected by Jean Eustache, Jean-Michel Barjol
Genres Documentary
Rating66%
Dans une ferme des Cévennes, l'abattage et le dépeçage d'un porc.