The Virgin of 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.

• Jean EustacheWriter
• Jean EustacheDirector
• Françoise LebrunWriter

• Jean-Claude DalbosSelf - Docteur et maire de Pessac
• Agnès SoleraSelf - Candidate à la Rosière
• Christiane VernetSelf