Jean Eustache
French filmmaker (1938–1981) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
Jean Eustache | |
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Born | (1938-11-30)30 November 1938 |
Died | 5 November 1981(1981-11-05) (aged 42) Paris, France |
Occupation(s) | Film director, editor |
Years active | 1961–1980 |
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.