--- name: "Jean Eustache" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-eustache" fi1m_id: "jean-eustache" imdb_id: "nm0262402" tmdb_id: 53914 wikidata_id: "Q966198" roles: ["Editor","Director"] born: "30 November 1938" died: "5 November 1981" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-26T17:49:47.119757+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Jean Eustache ## Identity Jean Eustache - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-eustache - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jean-eustache - **IMDb ID:** nm0262402 - **TMDB ID:** 53914 - **Wikidata ID:** Q966198 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Eustache, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262402/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53914 Editor and director. Born 30 November 1938 in Pessac, Gironde, France. Died 5 November 1981. ## Details - **Work:** Editor, Director - **Born:** 30 November 1938, Pessac, Gironde, France - **Died:** 5 November 1981 - **Active:** 1973–1977 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 other - **Cannes Film Festival:** 1 Cannes prize (1 won) - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 81 (1), 1970s 86 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Eustache, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262402/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53914 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Weekend*](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Jean Eustache was a French film director and editor. Born in Pessac, Gironde, he worked as a film critic for Cahiers du Cinéma and made several short films and documentaries before his first feature. He directed, wrote and edited *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), a 219-minute film starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun. He also appeared uncredited in Jean-Luc Godard's *Weekend* (1967) and as the Friendly Man in Wim Wenders's *The American Friend* (1977). His other notable feature is *My Little Loves* (1974). Eustache completed his work between 1961 and 1980. He died in Paris in 1981. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (2) ### Directed (1) - *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), Fi1m 86, as Man in Sunglasses in Store (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mother-and-the-whore.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *Weekend* (1967), Fi1m 81, as L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md) ## Complete filmography (33) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman* (2016), Actor - *The Ministries of Art* (1989), Thanks - *Employment Offer* (1982), Director - *Alix's Pictures* (1982), Director - *Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Delights* (1981), Writer, Director - *Grands mères* (1980), series, Director - *The Virgin of Pessac 79* (1979), Editor, Writer, Director - *A Dirty Story* (1977), as A listener (uncredited) · Director, Producer - *The American Friend* (1977), as Friendly Man - *Aussi loin que mon enfance* (1976), Scenario Writer - *Vincent Put the Donkey in a Meadow (And Went Into the Other)* (1976), as un videur - *The Pig* (1975), Director, Screenplay, Editor - *My Little Loves* (1974), as Man on bench (uncredited) · Writer, Director - *Céline and Julie Go Boating* (1974), as Spectateur au cabaret / Lecteur à la bibliohèque (uncredited) - *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), as Man in Sunglasses in Store (uncredited) · Director, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mother-and-the-whore.md) - *A Girl Is a Gun* (1971), Editor - *Odette Robert* (1971), Director, Producer, Writer, Editor - *Numéro zéro* (1971), Director - *Postface : Le Dernier des hommes* (1969), Director - *Postface: La Petite Marchande d'allumettes* (1969), Director - *The Accompaniment* (1969), Actor - *Bad Company* (1969), Director, Writer, Editor - *The Virgin of Pessac* (1968), Editor, Writer, Director - *The Idols* (1968), Editor - *Weekend* (1967), as L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md) - *Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception* (1967), Editor - *Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur* (1967), Editor - *Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif* (1967), Editor - *Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes* (1966), Director, Writer - *October in Madrid* (1965), Editor - *Robinson's Place* (1964), as L'Ami · Editor, Director, Writer - *Les Roses de la vie* (1962), Actor - *The Evening* (1961), Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Le cinéma Jean Eustache à Pessac (Gironde, France). La mairie se reflète sur la vitre...](https://film.one/media/person/3913618/gallery-35092770a3f5.jpg) Le cinéma Jean Eustache à Pessac (Gironde, France). La mairie se reflète sur la vitre... — Carmen Buze, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Pessac_cinema.jpg/1280px-Pessac_cinema.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jean Eustache](https://film.one/media/person/3913618/gallery-05c7b83dd6f4.jpg) Jean Eustache — Image via TMDB - ![Jean Eustache](https://film.one/media/person/3913618/gallery-c1b1ad611d93.jpg) Jean Eustache — Image via TMDB - ![Jean Eustache](https://film.one/media/person/3913618/gallery-2489e6bc2113.jpg) Jean Eustache — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Cannes Film Festival — 1 won - 1973: Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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