Films

A masterpiece of modernity and a testament to the New Wave as much as to the libertarian aspirations of May 68, The Mother and the Whore could well be the tree that hides the dense forest of Jean Eustache's work. Alternating documentaries ( Number zero , La Rosière de Pessac ) and short fictions ( Santa Claus has blue eyes , Les Photos d'Alix ) or long (up to the monumental 3h40 of La Maman et la Putain ), the relentless authenticity of Jean Eustache, filmmaker of desire and the intimate, shines in each of his films: from the sunny and flayed youth of My Little Lovers to the Bataillean vertigo of A Dirty Story.