Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath 1997 Directed by Angel Díez La peine perdue de Jean Eustache

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.

Country USA

Production Country France

Language French

Spoken Language French

Gnere Documentary

Production Companies La Sept-Arte , Les Films du Poisson

Release Date 14 May 1997

54 mins