Jean Eustache

The Ministries of Art (1989)

Philippe Garrel's documentary on France's second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot. ...

Employment Offer (1982)

A man looks for a job, ignoring the selection process of employees. Part of "Contes modernes: A propos du travail. ...

Alix's Pictures (1982)

Alix Cléo Roubaud, a photographer, describes her images to Eustache's son Boris. An "essay in the shape of a hoax", Eustache's last film wittily questions the relationship between showing and telling as it gradually shifts Alix's narration out of sync wit ...

Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights (1981)

Filmed by Jean Eustache for the television program, Les Enthousiastes, Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights presents a series of unstructured observations, free associations, and interpretations on the third panel of Bosch's well-known oil on wood triptyc ...

The Virgin of Pessac 79 (1979)

In 1979, under the presidency of the city mayor, the people of Pessac elect a virtuous and gracious maiden from amongst the residents, following a tradition that comes from times immemorial. ...

A Dirty Story (1977)

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 abou ...

Aussi loin que mon enfance (1976)

Italy, May 1969. A woman, her fiancé and two other revolutionaries are on their way to a demonstration in Rome. The trip is an opportunity for the young woman to look back on herself, her journey and her anxieties. ...

The Pig (1975)

In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat. ...

My Little Loves (1974)

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. ...

The Mother and the Whore (1973)

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 stake ...

A Girl Is a Gun (1971)

The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse. ...

Numéro zéro (1971)

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production — he is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the ...

Postface : Le Dernier des hommes (1969)

Discussion between the critics André S. Labarthe, Jean Domarchi and director Marc'O, on a film of Murnau. ...

Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes (1969)

Jean Renoir talks about the making of La Petite Marchande d'allumettes. ...

Bad Company (1969)

Two short films by Jean Eustache (Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes) presented together. US limited theatrical release in 1969. ...

The Virgin of Pessac (1968)

This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village's most virtuous young woman. ...

The Idols (1968)

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampoone ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception (1967)

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyzing scenes from La Marseillaise and The Rules of the Game, and discussing his editing and storytelling techniques. ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur (1967)

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their reunion by discussing, among other things, La Chienne (1931) and Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932). ...

Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif (1967)

The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir. ...

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume. ...

October in Madrid (1965)

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. "Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a film. ...

Robinson's Place (1964)

Two young men near the place de Clichy are looking for fun and whatever trouble comes with it. Unsurprisingly, their attention ultimately falls on a girl. They go to a dancing called "Robinson". Spurned when she decides to go dancing with someone else, the ...

Courts métrages de Jean Eustache (1963-1980) (1963)

The Evening (1961)

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper. ...

imagenaction (2024)

The confrontation of reality and dream. ...

Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman (2016)

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema's most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à ...

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (1997)

Ángel Díaz's documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: "The role of the author in cinema should b ...

The Ministries of Art (1989)

Philippe Garrel's documentary on France's second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot. ...

To Jean Eustache (1982)

Milena Gabanelli sits in her room while listening to one of the last voice recordings of Jean Eustache. ...

A Dirty Story (1977)

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 abou ...

The American Friend (1977)

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal il ...

Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other) (1976)

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image. ...

My Little Loves (1974)

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. ...

Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Julie, a daydreaming librarian, meets Céline, an enigmatic magician, and together they become the heroines of a time-warping adventure involving a haunted house, psychotropic candy, and a murder-mystery melodrama. ...

The Mother and the Whore (1973)

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 stake ...

Numéro zéro (1971)

A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production — he is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the ...

The Accompaniment (1969)

A musician has to compose a commissioned work for a film. But his mind is guided by external solicitations that constantly divert him from his work. ...

Weekend (1967)

A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations. ...

Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators (1967)

Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry o ...

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)

Daniel needs some money to buy a duffle coat that is in fashion, so he agrees to work for a photographer by dressing up as Santa Claus. He discovers that it is much easier to meet girls when he is in his costume. ...

Robinson's Place (1964)

Two young men near the place de Clichy are looking for fun and whatever trouble comes with it. Unsurprisingly, their attention ultimately falls on a girl. They go to a dancing called "Robinson". Spurned when she decides to go dancing with someone else, the ...

Les Roses de la vie (1962)

François Truffaut said of Paul Vecchiali in his early days that he was "the only true heir of Jean Renoir." The first short film of this director, who was to become a singular figure of independent French cinema, follows the path of an elderly woman towar ...