Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
1997
54 minutes
Overview
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 be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.
Top Cast
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Self
Françoise Lebrun
Self
Boris Eustache
Self
Sylvie Durastanti
Self
Jean-Michel Barjol
Self
Henri Martinez
Self
Jean Eustache
Self (archival footage)
Odette Robert
Self (archival footage)
Martin Loeb
Self (archival footage)
Yvan Gaillard
(voice)
Philippe Théaudière
(voice)
Jean-Pierre Ruh
(voice)
Michael Lonsdale
(voice)