Jean Eustache

Jean Eustache was born in Pessac, near Bordeaux, on 30 November 1938, and spent part of his childhood in Narbonne. Having moved up to Paris, he worked as a railway electrician, then came close to the circle of the Cahiers du cinéma through his partner, Jeanne Delos, who worked there. He made short films and documentaries, one of them devoted to his grandmother, and two feature-length fiction films. He died in Paris on 5 November 1981, aged forty-two.

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• CinemaThe Mother and the WhoreLa Maman et la PutainJean Eustache · 1973Cinema