Jean Eustache: Numéro Zéro
July 17 - 22, 2023
The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache
Jean Eustache sits down with his grandmother Odette Robert—a key figure in his life and a substitute mother during his youth—for a feature-length conversation across a kitchen table. The two discuss the harshness of her rural upbringing, her troubled marriage, the deaths of her children, and the deprivations of World Wars I and II. The film was truncated to one hour for French television and never shown publicly in its full form during Eustache’s lifetime; the full version of Numéro Zéro was rediscovered and reconstructed in 2002.
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Passes: $90 | $60 SIFF Members - includes full series access.
- Director: Jean Eustache
- Principal Cast: Boris Eustache, Jean Eustache, Odette Robert
- Country: France
- Year: 1971
- Running Time: 110 min.
- Producer: Jean Eustache
- Screenplay: Jean Eustache
- Cinematographers: Adolfo Arrieta, Philippe Théaudière
- Editors: Jean Eustache
- Language: French
- Has Subtitles: Yes