FILM DIRECTOR

Jean Eustache

1938 - 1981

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Eustache has received more than 157,060 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Jean Eustache is the 426th most popular film director (up from 537th in 2019), the 2,425th most popular biography from France (up from 2,905th in 2019) and the 59th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean Eustache ranks 426 out of 2,041. Before her are Bong Joon-ho, Lo Wei, Édouard Molinaro, Richard Brooks, Michael Anderson, and Taylor Hackford. After her are Chuck Lorre, Ladislao Vajda, Oskar Fischinger, Maurice Pialat, David Yates, and Takashi Miike.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jean Eustache ranks 159. Before her are Giant Baba, Tengiz Kitovani, Beata Tyszkiewicz, David Baltimore, Igor Sergeyev, and Sergei Novikov. After her are Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Oleg Gordievsky, Goh Kun, Luis Artime, Ronny Cox, and Alan Dershowitz. Among people deceased in 1981, Jean Eustache ranks 68. Before her are Valeri Kharlamov, Gloria Grahame, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Melvyn Douglas, D. R. Bendre, and Ferruccio Parri. After her are Ziaur Rahman, Nelson Algren, Kirill Kondrashin, Franjo Šeper, Marcel Bezençon, and Yakov Pavlov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Eustache ranks 2,425 out of 6,770. Before her are Louis Anquetin (1861), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829), Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909), Pierre Dupont de l'Étang (1765), and Ernst Robert Curtius (1886). After her are Michel Leiris (1901), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti (1695), Isaac the Blind (1160), Jean Fautrier (1898), and Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean Eustache ranks 59. Before her are André Téchiné (1943), Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946), Michel Gondry (1963), Aleksandar Petrović (1929), Claude Zidi (1934), and Édouard Molinaro (1928). After her are Maurice Pialat (1925), Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), Jacques Tourneur (1904), Louis Feuillade (1873), Bertrand Blier (1939), and René Laloux (1929).

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Filmography

The Mother and the Whore
Director
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.
May 1o 19737.434 / 10
My Little Loves
Director
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.
Dec 20o 19746.932 / 10
A Dirty Story
Director
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.
Nov 9o 19776.4 / 10