A Dirty Story
Synopsis
A group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he discovered a peephole into the ladies' bathroom and became addicted to looking through it at female genitals. They ask him questions and come to conclusions about sex. This is a filmed, scripted version. Then, the actual person who this happened to relates the same story; this time, however, it is an unscripted documentary, in which the same things occur as in the scripted one.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Losange
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Losange
Full credits (5)
- Screenwriter : Jean Eustache
- Director of Photography : Jacques Renard
- Editors : Chantal Colomer, Jean Eustache
- Sound Recordist : Roger Letellier
- Author of original work : Jean-Noël Picq
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : Eroticism
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1977
- Runtime : 28 min
- Visa number : 47803
- Visa issue date : 15/05/1991
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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In A Dirty Story Jean Eustache presents the same story of storytelling twice: once in documentary fashion, filmed his friend Jean-Noël Picq in 16mm black and white, and a second time in 35mm color with the actor Michael Lonsdale reciting the same lines. Eustache invited his Jean-Noël Picq to sit down with a group of people to recount in detail how once, in the men’s room of a Parisian restaurant, he found a hole in the wall and peered through to a perfect view of the ladies’ room. In order to test his contention that the actor would prove more convincing than the real-life storyteller, Eustache placed the fictional version first. While the film never shows anything more shocking than a man talking, French censors gave the film an X rating, proving Eustache’s claim that “sex has nothing to do with morals, not even with aesthetics; sex is a metaphysical affair.”
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