Une Salle Histoire
1977, NR, 50 min.
Directed by Jean Eustache, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Michel Lonsdale, Jean Douchet, Jean-Noël Picq.

A fabled film in the history of cinema, Une Salle Histoire (A Dirty Story) deals uncomfortably with the subject of voyeurism. The story involves a friend of Eustache who accidentally found a restaurant peephole into the ladies restroom and become a daily customer until, to his relief, he discovered it plastered over. Eustache tells this story twice, each time in a radically different fashion.

This article appears in March 23 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.