Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of postNouvelle Vague French cinema.

Eustache was born in Pessac, Gironde, France into a working class family. Relatively little information exists about Eustaches life prior to the time he became a member of the Cahiers du cinma coterie in the late fifties, though it is known that he was largely selfeducated 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..

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