Jean Eustache’s ‘The Pig’ and ‘The Virgin of Pessac’ Capture a Fading Rustic Culture

Jean Eustache was born on November 30th, 1938 in the village of Pessac. A small town of about 14,000 people, it was a community of mostly farmers, a representative example of French country life as it had been lived for centuries. But by the late 1960s, when he began to make films, the post-war boom had already begun to change everything. The population…