Movies: Jean Eustache

  • 1977
    The American Friend

    The American Friend (1977)

    The American Friend

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    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 termi...

    The American Friend
  • 1973
    The Mother and the Whore

    The Mother and the Whore (1973)

    The Mother and the Whore

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    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...

    The Mother and the Whore
  • 1974
    Céline and Julie Go Boating

    Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

    Céline and Julie Go Boating

    6.71974HD

    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....

    Céline and Julie Go Boating
  • 1967
    Weekend

    Weekend (1967)

    Weekend

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    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....

    Weekend
  • 1974
    My Little Loves

    My Little Loves (1974)

    My Little Loves

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    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....

    My Little Loves
  • 1967
    Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception

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

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

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    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, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
  • 1966
    Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

    Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (1966)

    Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes

    7.41966HD

    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....

    Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes
  • 1982
    Alix's Pictures

    Alix's Pictures (1982)

    Alix's Pictures

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    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 syn...

    Alix's Pictures
  • 1977
    A Dirty Story

    A Dirty Story (1977)

    A Dirty Story

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    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 conclusion...

    A Dirty Story
  • 1979
    The Virgin of Pessac

    The Virgin of Pessac (1979)

    The Virgin of Pessac

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    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....

    The Virgin of Pessac
  • 1968
    The Virgin of Pessac

    The Virgin of Pessac (1968)

    The Virgin of Pessac

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    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 Virgin of Pessac
  • 1971
    Numéro zéro

    Numéro zéro (1971)

    Numéro zéro

    9.51971HD

    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...

    Numéro zéro
  • 1968
    The Idols

    The Idols (1968)

    The Idols

    5.71968HD

    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 la...

    The Idols
  • 1962
    Les Roses de la vie

    Les Roses de la vie (1962)

    Les Roses de la vie

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    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 ...

    Les Roses de la vie
  • 1981
    Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights

    Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights (1981)

    Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights

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    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 t...

    Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights
  • 1971
    A Girl Is a Gun

    A Girl Is a Gun (1971)

    A Girl Is a Gun

    4.61971HD

    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....

    A Girl Is a Gun
  • 1975
    The Pig

    The Pig (1975)

    The Pig

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    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....

    The Pig
  • 1997
    Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

    Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (1997)

    Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

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    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 shou...

    Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
  • 1976
    Aussi loin que mon enfance

    Aussi loin que mon enfance (1976)

    Aussi loin que mon enfance

    01976HD

    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....

    Aussi loin que mon enfance
  • 2024
    imagenaction

    imagenaction (2024)

    imagenaction

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    The confrontation of reality and dream....

    imagenaction