Born in Pessac, Gironde, France, in 1938. He grew into a working class family and worked in the railroad service prior to becoming a filmmaker. He became a member of the Cahiers du cinéma coterie in the late fifties and appeared as an actor in Jean-Luc Godard’s Week End (1967). He edited Luc Moullet’s Une Aventure de Billy le Kid (1971). One of the most important post-Nouvelle Vague French filmmakers, Eustache made in his short career films like The Virgin of Pessac (1968), The Pig (1970), Numéro zéro (1971), The Mother and the Whore (1973), My Little Loves (1974) and A Dirty Story (1977). Eustache died in Paris in 1981.