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Jean Eustache is filming an evening with friends here, during which actor-turned-psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq delivers his personal analysis of Jérôme Bosch’s painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Between this conversation between friends, cigarette and glass of wine in hand, the infernal creatures of Bosch arise, raising more questions than explanations…Read More »
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.Read More »
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Almost the entire hour and three-quarters of Jean Eustache’s 1971 film “Numéro Zéro” is filled with the director’s interview of his grandmother Odette Robert on Feb. 12th of that year. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production—the director himself is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the clapboard at the head and tail of the reels, and even takes a phone call from a foreign firm that wants to distribute one of his early short films. Odette Robert had come from her home in the provinces to live with Eustache in Paris and help care for his son Boris (who is seen, at the beginning of the film, helping guide her through the streets of Paris—she had recently had eye operations and had to wear dark lenses, including on-camera).Read More »
Two ten-year-old children, Gloria and Jacques, meet at the former’s birthday party. It is love at first sight and they vow eternal love. Unfortunately, the First World War breaks out and they are separated. The people around them do not understand the deep feelings that link them to each other. When they meet again after the war, Gloria has become a cabaret dancer whereas Jacques has married in the USA. Nothing seems possible between them any longer…Read More »
After crossing the desert in his career as an actor, Yazid finally sees the end of the tunnel emerging. Sober for six months, he wants to show his new fiancée and his 16-year-old son, Hassan, that he is now another man who has regained a taste for life. However, in a few days, the old demons resurface and with them the memories of his childhood in Algeria.Read More »
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Jean-Luc Godard’s densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the attempts by a young group of idealists to stage a play in war-torn Sarajevo and an elderly director’s efforts to complete his film.Read More »
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A simple but effective tale, Bar salon tells the story of Charles, a man in his fifties whose saloon business is losing money and about to go under. Since he cannot pay his employees, his daughter Michèle begins working at a bar in addition to her job as cashier in a fish market. Every evening she serves the few remaining clients: the refined but aging Major Cotnoir, the vulgar drunk Leslie, Michèle’s unambitious, taxing-driving fiancé Robert and Julien, whose wife flaunts her affair with a lodger.Read More »
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Eustache’s debut film follows two young men near the place de Clichy, looking for fun and whatever trouble comes with it. Unsurprisingly, their attention ultimately falls on a girl. They go to a dancing called “Robinson”. Spurned when she decides to go dancing with someone else, their thoughts quickly turn to revenge. Slowly, we discover the layer of despair that sits just under their carefree appearance.Read More »
