Luc Moullet
Biography: Luc Moullet (b. 14 October 1937 in Paris) is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, which is heavily influenced by his love of American B-movies. Though such influential filmmakers and critics as Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Marie Straub, Jacques Rivette and Jonathan Rosenbaum have consistently praised his work, he has never found commercial success, even in his native France. Moullet is known to frequently act in his movies.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 14, 1937
Deathday: N/A
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Le Cabot
1972-05-05
Le Cabot
Overview: An assistant director has to kill a dog for a movie scene. But the animal turns out to be very tenacious.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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Nous sommes tous des cafards
1997-01-01
Nous sommes tous des cafards
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Coming to Terms with the Dead
1994-10-05
Coming to Terms with the Dead
Overview: It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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Anatomy of a Relationship
1976-09-29
Anatomy of a Relationship
Overview: A woman's feminist awakening drives an intellectual couple to a relationship crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Essai d'ouverture
1988-01-01
Essai d'ouverture
Overview: A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Barres
1984-12-31
Barres
Overview: The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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La Cabale des oursins
1992-02-14
La Cabale des oursins
Overview: A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Brigitte and Brigitte
1966-12-17
Brigitte and Brigitte
Overview: Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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L'imprésario
2010-11-14
L'imprésario
Overview: In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing merriment (entitled Beaubourg, la dernière Major !) audience members were invited to observe the daily making of this film, directed by Bozon and written by Axelle Ropert, about an inexperienced young journalist (Laure Marsac) sent to the Pompidou to interview a maverick artistic impresario (Thomas Chabrol). The result is an unexpected love story that is also a record of this landmark exhibition, featuring cameos by Raul Ruiz, Paul Vecchiali, Luc Moullet and more !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-14
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The Comedy of Work
1988-03-02
The Comedy of Work
Overview: Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-02
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Death's Glamour
2007-06-20
Death's Glamour
Overview: Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work. Unfortunately, the scheme backfires, since the dead man was someone rather important...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-20
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I Hate Love
1997-06-11
I Hate Love
Overview: Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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An Overcooked Steak
1960-01-01
An Overcooked Steak
Overview: Though a piece of meat figures in this film the real subject is, before you judge something not just a steak, think twice, as for instance the way two people in a situation present themselves to each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Girl Is a Gun
1971-01-24
A Girl Is a Gun
Overview: The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-24
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Under the Stars
1994-04-13
Under the Stars
Overview: The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belongs to him at last. Four young women contribute to his sentimental education.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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Land of Madness
2009-05-20
Land of Madness
Overview: Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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My First Breaststroke
1981-01-01
My First Breaststroke
Overview: Film director Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet
2014-01-22
Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet
Overview: Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet is an audio interview with Luc Moullet recorded on 29 January 1979 by Gérard Courant for the magazine Cinéma 79.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc
2006-06-13
Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc
Overview: A tongue-in-cheek short by Luc Moullet, filmmaker and critic. Moullet was one of Godard's early friends and collaborators at the Cahiers du cinéma.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-13
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The Surrounded
1968-06-12
The Surrounded
Overview: Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didier's sister, is a professor of sociology. These young people belong to this upper-class, snobbish bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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L'attentat
1966-01-01
L'attentat
Overview: André is a loser. He dreams of becoming a great writer and being sought after by wonderful women. To make something interesting happen in his life he visits political meetings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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A Girl Is a Gun
1971-01-24
A Girl Is a Gun
Overview: The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-24
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La leçon de guitare
2006-02-01
La leçon de guitare
Overview: A man with nothing to do all day decides to take guitar lessons. He falls for his music teacher’s flatmate who flirts with him slightly and even has the same name as the Serge Gainsbourg chanson he’s struggling to learn “Laetitia”. Not so much a passionate love story as a finely woven, laconic film about what it’s like to be just that little bit in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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Origins of a Meal
1979-02-01
Origins of a Meal
Overview: Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs his film by working backwards and finding the sources for these items and how they reach our plates. As Moullet’s investigation deepens, however, the film moves beyond the confines of a simple exploration of food origins into more political and social realms, not only relating to food but also to the medium of film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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The Man Of The Badlands
2000-09-27
The Man Of The Badlands
Overview: A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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The Smugglers
1968-12-11
The Smugglers
Overview: Two young women leave claustrophobic city life behind and move to a small border town. There they meet a border guard, involved in smuggling to and from the country. Both women fall for him, resulting in jealousy.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-11
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Imphy, capitale de la France
1995-01-01
Imphy, capitale de la France
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Belly of America
1996-02-06
The Belly of America
Overview: The United States is not only New York, San Francisco, Hollywood, it is above all the two hundred million inhabitants of deep America. Des Moines (Iowa), emblematic city of deep America, serves as the first test during the presidential elections and saw the birth in its suburbs of John Wayne and Jean Seberg. Belly is the key word in this obesity capital.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-06
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Up and Down
1993-03-27
Up and Down
Overview: A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags. La Cabale des oursins is a guided tour to the northern France, transformed into a Geography lesson in the pataphysical style of an Alfred Jarry disciple.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-27
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Grand Guignol
2008-01-02
Grand Guignol
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-02
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Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
1967-10-22
Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Overview: Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60's.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-22
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A Whale That Had a Toothache
1975-04-15
A Whale That Had a Toothache
Overview: Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-15
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Le journal de Joseph M.
2000-02-15
Le journal de Joseph M.
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-15
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Chambéry-Les Arcs
1996-11-01
Chambéry-Les Arcs
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Périssable Paradis
2002-12-27
Périssable Paradis
Overview: 15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-27
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Portrait de groupe
1986-02-05
Portrait de groupe
Overview: Portrait de groupe is a film series of filmed portraits that shows all kinds of groups gathered under family pretexts, friendly or professional, in a single fixed, wide shot (style: family photo) and silent of 3 minutes and 20 seconds.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-02-05
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2000 Cinématons
2001-09-18
2000 Cinématons
Overview: A film about an ongoing cinematic adventure that began in 1978: a vast anthology of personality portraits called Cinématons, dealing with people in the arts. Historical, ethnological, sociological and psychological, this anthology is a living record of the artistic community of the last 20th century which attempts to answer these questions: Why film everyone? Why choose cultural personalities? How do the subjects look at their image? How much exhibitionism and narcissism is involved in being filmed?
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-18
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Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I
2011-11-16
Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-16
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Luc Moullet à Manosque II
2012-11-03
Luc Moullet à Manosque II
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III
2012-11-03
Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-03
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
1971-03-01
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Overview: In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-01
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Cocktail Morlock
1981-01-31
Cocktail Morlock
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-31
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La rouge et la noire
2011-06-08
La rouge et la noire
Overview: Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording equally well in 35 mm and digitally, LA ROUGE ET LA NOIRE is a film in kaleidoscope form. The portrait of Aatons founder, Jean-Pierre Beauviala creator, inter alia, of the time-code and the light cameras used by the New Wave (in particular the bush camera specially designed for Jean Rouch) is centered around the basic plot introduced by two women thieves who talk as voice-overs, and whose identities will only be revealed at the end.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-08
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Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
1983-10-07
Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
Overview: A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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