Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
Original title: La Peine perdue de Jean Eustache
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-billed cast
- JJean-Pierre Ruh
- MMichael Lonsdale
- MMartin Loeb
- SSylvie Durastanti
- FFrançoise Lebrun
- BBoris Eustache
- PPhilippe Théaudière
- HHenri Martinez
- YYvan Gaillard
- OOdette Robert
Crew
- Director
- Angel Díez
- Writer
- Angel Díez
- Producer
- Yaël Fogiel
- Production
- Les Films du Poisson, La Sept-Arte
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Who directed Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath?
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath was directed by Angel Díez.
When was Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath released?
Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath was released in 1997.
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