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-{{Template}}'''Jean Eustache''' ([[November 30]], [[1938]] - [[November 3]], [[1981]]) was a [[France|French]] [[filmmaker]].+{{Template}}'''Jean Eustache''' ([[November 30]], [[1938]] - [[November 3]], [[1981]]) was a [[France|French]] [[filmmaker]] best known for his film ''[[The Mother and the Whore]]''.
In 1973 Jean Eustache directed what would become one of just two narrative features he would make before committing suicide in 1981. "The Mother and the Whore" ("La maman et la putain") is Eustache’s three-hour-and-forty-minute rumination on love, relationships, men and women. The film’s central three-way romance plot focuses on Alexandre ([[Jean-Pierre Léaud]]), his girlfriend Marie ([[Bernadette Lafont]]) and the nurse he meets and falls in love with, Veronika ([[Françoise Lebrun]]). Aside from "The Mother and the Whore", Eustache’s filmography consists of [[Mes petites amoureuses]] (1974), his other narrative feature, and a handful of documentaries and shorts, most notably "Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes" ([[Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus]], 1966) which also stars Léaud. In 1973 Jean Eustache directed what would become one of just two narrative features he would make before committing suicide in 1981. "The Mother and the Whore" ("La maman et la putain") is Eustache’s three-hour-and-forty-minute rumination on love, relationships, men and women. The film’s central three-way romance plot focuses on Alexandre ([[Jean-Pierre Léaud]]), his girlfriend Marie ([[Bernadette Lafont]]) and the nurse he meets and falls in love with, Veronika ([[Françoise Lebrun]]). Aside from "The Mother and the Whore", Eustache’s filmography consists of [[Mes petites amoureuses]] (1974), his other narrative feature, and a handful of documentaries and shorts, most notably "Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes" ([[Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus]], 1966) which also stars Léaud.

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Jean Eustache (November 30, 1938 - November 3, 1981) was a French filmmaker best known for his film The Mother and the Whore.

In 1973 Jean Eustache directed what would become one of just two narrative features he would make before committing suicide in 1981. "The Mother and the Whore" ("La maman et la putain") is Eustache’s three-hour-and-forty-minute rumination on love, relationships, men and women. The film’s central three-way romance plot focuses on Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), his girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and the nurse he meets and falls in love with, Veronika (Françoise Lebrun). Aside from "The Mother and the Whore", Eustache’s filmography consists of Mes petites amoureuses (1974), his other narrative feature, and a handful of documentaries and shorts, most notably "Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes" (Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus, 1966) which also stars Léaud.

There exists relatively little information about Eustache’s life prior to the time he became a perfunctory member of the Cahiers du cinema crowd in the late fifties. Information suggests that the mystery surrounding his youth was intentional, with sources stating that "during his lifetime Eustache published little information about his early years, indicating that he felt no nostalgia for an unhappy childhood." (John Wakeman, World Film Directors, Vol. 2)

He was born in Pessac, Gironde, France. After months of immobilization due to an auto accident, Eustache killed himself in Paris a few weeks before his 43rd birthday.

Eustache found his way around the Nouvelle vague, but has never been part of the movement.

Quoted as saying, “The films I made are as autobiographical as fiction can be.”

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