Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath (La peine perdue de Jean Eustache) 26 years old

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.

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Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath Cast

Name	Character
Jean-Pierre Léaud He was 52, now 79 years old	as Himself
Françoise Lebrun She was 52, now 79 years old	as Herself

Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath Crew

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