Jean Eustache | |
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| Born | 30 November 1938 |
| Died | 5 November 1981 (aged 42) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, editor |
| Years active | 1961–1980 |
Jean Eustache (French: [øs.taʃ]; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French film director and editor. During his short career, he completed numerous short films, 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.[1][2][3]
In his obituary for Eustache, the 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.[4]
Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film Broken Flowers to Eustache.
- ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "The Way We Are (THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE)". Jonathan Rosenbaum. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Word Made Flesh: The Films of Jean Eustache". Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2008.
- ^ "Harvard Film Archive -- Of Flesh, of Spirit: The Cinema of Jean Eustache". Archived from the original on 7 September 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2008.
- ^ "The Thread, by Serge Daney (translated by Steve Erickson)". Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2004.