death_date death_place birth_place birth_date yearsactive image article_title name occupation
5 november 1981 paris , france pessac , gironde , france 30 november 1938 1961 -- 1980 jean eustache.jpg jean eustache
 jean eustache film director
jean eustache

jean eustache -lrb- ; 30 november 1938 -- 5 november 1981 -rrb- was a french filmmaker .
during his short career , he completed numerous shorts , in addition to a pair of highly regarded features , of which the first , `` the mother and the whore '' , is considered a key work of post-nouvelle vague french cinema .
in his obituary for eustache , the influential critic serge daney wrote : `` in the thread of the desolate 70s , his films succeeded one another , always unforeseen , without a system , without a gap : film-rivers , short films , tv programs , hyperreal fiction .
each film went to the end of its material , from real to fictional sorrow .
it was impossible for him to go against it , to calculate , to take cultural success into account , impossible for this theoretician of seduction to seduce an audience . ''
jim jarmusch dedicated his 2005 film `` broken flowers '' to eustache .
