Luc Moullet

Tout est Brisé (2014)

Almost all of this episode of the Carnets filmés, with the evocative title, Tout est Brisé is devoted to the misdeeds of the storm of 26 December 1999 on the Bois de Vincennes, whose forest extends at the foot of my building. For several months, I was th ...

Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet (2014)

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. ...

Luc Moullet à Manosque II (2012)

Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III (2012)

Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I (2011)

La rouge et la noire (2011)

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, Je ...

L'Imprésario (2010)

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 ...

Land of Madness (2009)

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps. ...

Grand Guignol (2008)

Death's Glamour (2007)

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 wi ...

Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc (2006)

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. ...

La leçon de guitare (2006)

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 ...

Périssable Paradis (2002)

15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions. ...

2000 Cinématons (2001)

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 th ...

The Man of the Badlands (2000)

A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films. ...

Le journal de Joseph M. (2000)

I Hate Love (1997)

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. ...

We Are All Cockroaches (1997)

Inspired by the subject and by his wife's own phobia, Luc Moullet approaches this often-feared insect through the unique prisms of religion and sexuality in a daring essay. ...

Chambéry-Les Arcs (1996)

The Belly of America (1996)

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 th ...

Imphy, capitale de la France (1995)

To solve the serious problems caused by population concentration around Paris, a team of filmmakers sets out in search of a new capital city... After a long journey, will they succeed in finding a capital? What will they choose? ...

Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)

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 s ...

Under the Stars (1994)

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. ...

Up and Down (1993)

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 hi ...

La Cabale des oursins (1992)

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use. ...

The Seats of the Alcazar (1989)

A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at a now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s. ...

The Comedy of Work (1988)

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 ...

Opening Essay (1988)

A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle. ...

Portrait de groupe (1986)

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. ...

Barres (1984)

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying. ...

Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film (1983)

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made. ...

Cocktail Morlock (1981)

My First Breaststroke (1981)

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim. ...

Origins of a Meal (1979)

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 Moul ...

Anatomy of a Relationship (1976)

A woman's feminist awakening drives an intellectual couple to a relationship crisis. ...

A Whale That Had a Toothache (1975)

Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people. ...

Le Cabot (1972)

An assistant director has to kill a dog for a movie scene. But the animal turns out to be very tenacious. ...

Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1971)

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 f ...

A Girl Is a Gun (1971)

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. ...

The Surrounded (1968)

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. ...

Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators (1967)

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 o ...

Brigitte and Brigitte (1966)

Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions. ...

L'attentat (1966)

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. ...

An Overcooked Steak (1960)

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. ...

Assemblée générale (2014)

The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd. ...

Catherine Breillat: The First Time (2013)

Luc Moullet's surprisingly tender look at Catherine Breillat, whose powerful explorations of female sexuality continue to divide audiences while they also gain admirers. Extraordinarily articulate, Breillat offers her own thoughts on the reactions to her f ...

La rouge et la noire (2011)

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, Je ...

Chef d'œuvre ? (2010)

A comic essay about the value of the short film. ...

Less and Less (2010)

Less and Less, Luc Moullet's 40th film, concerns development and expansion, from 1968 to 2010, of the devices based on computers, automats, interactive terminals and others that can be found everywhere. ...

Land of Madness (2009)

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps. ...

Death's Glamour (2007)

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 wi ...

Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc (2006)

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. ...

The Liter of Milk (2006)

Going to buy milk from the farmer next-door can be a real drama. ...

Film sans titre - La Maison de production (2006)

In just five minutes, Luc Moullet takes us on a tour of his production company, "Moullet et Cie," created in a space measuring barely 40 cubic centimeters. In this surprising venture, he summarizes the ingenious system that has accompanied his entire caree ...

Shipwrecked on Route D17 (2002)

During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France's most desert-like region. The cast is as follows: An astrophysician who works alone with Geraldine in an observatory high in the mountains. He'd like to seduce Geraldine, but s ...

The Zsigmondy System (2000)

Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is. ...

We Are All Cockroaches (1997)

Inspired by the subject and by his wife's own phobia, Luc Moullet approaches this often-feared insect through the unique prisms of religion and sexuality in a daring essay. ...

The Phantom of Longstaff (1996)

A short film based on Henry James' short story "Longstaff's Marriage". ...

The Belly of America (1996)

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 th ...

Imphy, capitale de la France (1995)

To solve the serious problems caused by population concentration around Paris, a team of filmmakers sets out in search of a new capital city... After a long journey, will they succeed in finding a capital? What will they choose? ...

Foix (1994)

A sightseeing tour of Foix (Ariège), "the most cheesy town in France". ...

More and More (1994)

Nowadays, supermarkets are being built where cinemas and churches used to be. Logical evolution as consumerism is the religion of the 20th century: supermarkets are the cathedrals of the future. ...

Up and Down (1993)

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 hi ...

La Cabale des oursins (1992)

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use. ...

The Seats of the Alcazar (1989)

A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at a now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s. ...

The Comedy of Work (1988)

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 ...

Opening Essay (1988)

A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle. ...

The Media Waltz (1987)

Study on the evolution and modernization of public libraries and media libraries. ...

L'Empire de Médor (1986)

L'empire de medor is a satirical voyage of discovery through the universe of the dog lover. By systematically scrutinising the industry that capitalises on the love for man's best friend, Moullet has made an absurdist film that shows how the love of animal ...

Barres (1984)

The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying. ...

Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film (1983)

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made. ...

Les Havres (1983)

Document on the city of Le Havre. Luc Moullet sets out to show Le Havre not as a single city centered on its port, but as a multitude of neighborhoods and annexed communes, making Le Havre a city of rare diversity. Commentary by Luc Moullet, said by hims ...

My First Breaststroke (1981)

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim. ...

Origins of a Meal (1979)

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 Moul ...

Anatomy of a Relationship (1976)

A woman's feminist awakening drives an intellectual couple to a relationship crisis. ...

Aussi loin que mon enfance (1976)

Italy, May 1969. A woman, her fiancé and two other revolutionaries are on their way to a demonstration in Rome. The trip is an opportunity for the young woman to look back on herself, her journey and her anxieties. ...

The Pig (1975)

In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat. ...

Nathalie Granger (1973)

With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in th ...

Le Cabot (1972)

An assistant director has to kill a dog for a movie scene. But the animal turns out to be very tenacious. ...

A Girl Is a Gun (1971)

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. ...

La peau dure (1969)

In a snow-covered Juras, two elderly couples talk about their past, one dealing lightly with death, the other with Christian mysticism. ...

Brigitte and Brigitte (1966)

Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions. ...

Black Earth (1961)

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing". ...

An Overcooked Steak (1960)

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. ...