Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (1997)
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.
- Released
- 1997-05-14
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 54 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Angel Díez, Angel Díez
Cast
- Jean-Pierre Léaud as Self
- Françoise Lebrun as Self
- Boris Eustache as Self
- Sylvie Durastanti as Self
- Jean-Michel Barjol as Self
- Henri Martinez as Self
- Jean Eustache as Self (archival footage)
- Odette Robert as Self (archival footage)
- Martin Loeb as Self (archival footage)
- Yvan Gaillard as (voice)
- Philippe Théaudière as (voice)
- Jean-Pierre Ruh as (voice)
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