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Jean Eustache (; 30 November 1938 – 5 November 1981) was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, ''The Mother and the Whore'', is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.〔(The Way We Are, by Jonathan Rosenbaum )〕〔(Word Made Flesh: The Films of Jean Eustache )〕〔(Harvard Film Archive -- Of Flesh, of Spirit: The Cinema of Jean Eustache )〕 In his obituary for Eustache, the influential critic Serge Daney wrote: "In the thread of the desolate 70s, his films succeeded one another, always unforeseen, without a system, without a gap: film-rivers, short films, TV programs, hyperreal fiction. Each film went to the end of its material, from real to fictional sorrow. It was impossible for him to go against it, to calculate, to take cultural success into account, impossible for this theoretician of seduction to seduce an audience."〔(The Thread, by Serge Daney (translated by Steve Erickson) )〕 Jim Jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film ''Broken Flowers'' to Eustache. ==Biography== Eustache was born in Pessac, Gironde, France into a working class family. Relatively little information exists about Eustache’s life prior to the time he became a member of the ''Cahiers du cinéma'' coterie in the late fifties, though it is known that he was largely self-educated and worked in the railroad service prior to becoming a filmmaker.〔(Dryden Theatre: The Rediscovery of Jean Eustache )〕 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〕 Though not a member of the Nouvelle vague, Eustache maintained ties to it, appearing as an actor in Jean-Luc Godard's ''Week End''〔(IMDB Jean Eustache )〕 and editing Luc Moullet's ''Une aventure de Billy le Kid'',〔 which starred Jean-Pierre Léaud (the lead in Eustache's ''The Mother and the Whore''). After becoming a filmmaker, Eustache maintained close ties to his friends and relatives in Pessac.〔La Peine Perdue de Jean Eustache, directed by Angel Diaz〕 In 1981, he was partially immobilized in an auto accident. He killed himself by gunshot〔(Film Reference )〕 in his Paris apartment, a few weeks before his 43rd birthday. Eustache had a son, Boris Eustache (b. 1960), who worked on his father's second feature and appears as an actor in Eustache's short film ''Les Photos d'Alix''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Eustache」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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