Jean Eustache – La rosière de Pessac aka The Virgin of Pessac (1979)

Quote:
The Eustachian intervention within his Rosières would perhaps not be strictly that of a filmmaker behind the camera, but that of a collagist-editor who plays with the film material and temporality to make a meaning spring forth from it. And if there is an erasure in the director, Eustache makes a conscious gesture of a programmer affirming, at the time of making the second Rosières, that he prefers that his two documentaries be viewed in reverse chronology: the first last, and the last first. It is in this ante-chronological way of seeing the Rosières and in this inversion that we can more easily perceive Eustache’s gaze, his gesture. If it is obviously not necessary to view them in the desired order – and besides, I first watched the two films chronologically, then took them up in reverse order -, my own sensitivity as a programmer was touched by this intervention that is too rare among filmmakers. It is perhaps this dissemination strategy that has in some way prompted me to take this choice very seriously, and to detect in it not only a creative gesture, but also a more acute, more naturally discernible, promising gesture.

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Starting with the 1979 Rosière is to enter a paradoxically tired and lively party, then manifestly uncertain. We navigate among the protagonists within outdated rules and we understand from the outset, without even having watched the previous part, that things have changed somewhat. The members of the jury seem to get lost in a doctrine that, as we can guess, remains outdated despite the few amendments to which the assembly refers (the jurors can no longer propose a rosière themselves, for example). This temporal inversion device resulting from Eustache’s programming gesture and this self-referential mode inevitably trigger curiosity. It is an effective mechanism that allows for increased reaction, because it is not only based on two times, but also puts into perspective the way in which we look at these two times. If in 1979, the women on the jury sniggered when talking about former crowned women who turned out to be pregnant, it is all the more striking to then hear the secretary general of 1968 mention that, although there is no ceiling on the age of a potential rosette, “it is rare to keep your virginity until you are forty”.

La rosiere de Pessac - J. Eustache (1979) 576p.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 10 min
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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French