About
Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as cinematic thinker and archivist of his own life. Actors read texts written by Eustache, including the following reflection: “The role of the author in cinema should be one of non-intervention.” This sentence reminds us that he belongs to the greatest of film traditions (he cites Griffith, Renoir, Dreyer, and Lang as his models), the one that sees cinema as a matter of placing the camera in front of reality and capturing it ardently, precisely, and without tricks.
Director
Angel Díez
Writer
Angel Díez
Producers
Studio
Les Films du Poisson, La Sept-Arte
Original Title
La Peine perdue de Jean Eustache
Original Language
French
Cast
Full credits →J
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Self
F
Françoise Lebrun
Self
B
Boris Eustache
Self
J
Jean-Michel Barjol
Self
H
Henri Martinez
Self
J
Jean Eustache
Self (archival footage)
O
Odette Robert
Self (archival footage)
M
Martin Loeb
Self (archival footage)
Y
Yvan Gaillard
(voice)
J
Jean-Pierre Ruh
(voice)
M
Michael Lonsdale
(voice)