Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 14, 1997

Original language

French

Spoken languages

French

Countries

France

Production

Les Films du Poisson

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded