The Virgin of Pessac (1968)
La Rosière de Pessac
This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village’s most virtuous young woman.
- Date of release
- 1968-12-28
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 3m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jean Eustache
Casting
- Jean-Claude Dalbos — Self - Docteur et maire de Pessac
- Agnès Solera — Self - Candidate à la Rosière
- Christiane Vernet — Self
Interesting facts
La Rosière de Pessac is the title of two hour-long films directed by Jean Eustache. The films cover an annual ceremony, held in Eustache's place of birth, in which the mayor and his associates nominate a girl as the town's most virtuous. Thus, the girls chosen in those two years are eponymous subjects of these documentaries.
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