his hometown of Pessac and a feature-length interview with his grandmother. Eustache directed two narrative features. The Mother and the Whore (La maman et la putain), the first, is a 217-minute rumination on love, relationships, men and women. The film's central three-way romance plot focuses on Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), his girlfriend Marie (Bernadette Lafont) and the nurse he meets and falls in love with, Veronika (Françoise Lebrun). Writing in Time Out New York, Andrew Johnston described his experience in viewing the film in 1999: Eustache's second feature, My Little Loves (Mes petites amoureuses, 1974), was intentionally different from his debut. Shot in color by cinematographer Nestor Almendros (as opposed to The Mother and the Whore'''s grainy black-and-white), the film also features significantly less dialogue and focuses on teenage characters in a rural setting. The film was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival. Eustache appeared as an actor in The American Friend (1977). Remakes and serial works Eustache admired the documentary qualities of early actuality films, and frequently cited the Lumiere Brothers as influences. He made two films about a religious parade in Pessac, both titled La Rosière de Pessac, in 1968 and 1979, and remade his short Une sale histoire twice. Regarding the tendency to re-examine in Eustache's work, the American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: "An obsessive-compulsive filmmaker and clearly a tormented one who wound up dying by his own hand, Eustache was clearly experimenting with his variations as well as goading viewers into examining their own reactions to them". Filmography Features 1966 Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus (47 minutes) 1968 La Rosière de Pessac (65 minutes) 1970 Le Cochon (65 minutes), directed with Jean-Michel Barjol 1971 Numéro zéro (110 minutes) 1973 La Maman et la putain (220 minutes) 1974 Mes petites amoureuses (120 minutes) 1977 Une sale histoire (50 minutes) 1979 La Rosière de Pessac (67 minutes) Shorts and other work 1961 La soirée (unfinished) 1963 Les Mauvaises Fréquentations (42 minutes), aka Du côté de Robinson & Bad Company1969 Sur Le dernier des hommes de Murnau (26 minutes) (TV movie) 1969 A propos de La petite marchande d'allumettes de Jean Renoir (26 minutes) (TV movie) 1980 Les Photos d'Alix (18 minutes) 1980 Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch (34 minutes) 1980 Offre d'emploi'' (18 minutes) References External links Biography on newwavefilm.com Desire & Despair: The Cinema of Jean Eustache by Jared Rapfogel He