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Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (French: [ʒɑ̃ østaʃ]; 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.
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.
Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film Broken Flowers to Eustache.
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 1950s, 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[citation needed] and editing Luc Moullet's Une aventure de Billy le Kid,[citation needed] which starred Jean-Pierre Léaud (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 in November the same year, at the age of 42.
Eustache had a son, Boris Eustache (born 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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Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache (French: [ʒɑ̃ østaʃ]; 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.
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.
Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film Broken Flowers to Eustache.
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 1950s, 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[citation needed] and editing Luc Moullet's Une aventure de Billy le Kid,[citation needed] which starred Jean-Pierre Léaud (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 in November the same year, at the age of 42.
Eustache had a son, Boris Eustache (born 1960), who worked on his father's second feature and appears as an actor in Eustache's short film Les Photos d'Alix.