Luc Moullet

Luc Moullet

Born: October 14, 1937
in Paris, France
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.

Movies for Luc Moullet...

Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet
Title: Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet
Character: Himself
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Luc Moullet à Manosque II
Title: Luc Moullet à Manosque II
Released: November 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III
Title: Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III
Released: November 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I
Title: Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
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La rouge et la noire
Title: La rouge et la noire
Character: The Boss
Released: June 8, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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L'imprésario
Title: L'imprésario
Released: November 14, 2010
Type: Movie
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 !
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Land of Madness
Title: Land of Madness
Character: Himself
Released: May 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.
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Grand Guignol
Title: Grand Guignol
Released: January 2, 2008
Type: Movie
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Death's Glamour
Title: Death's Glamour
Character: Luc Moullet
Released: June 20, 2007
Type: Movie
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...
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Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc
Title: Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc
Released: June 13, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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La leçon de guitare
Title: La leçon de guitare
Character: Le vendeur de guitares
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Périssable Paradis
Title: Périssable Paradis
Released: December 27, 2002
Type: Movie
15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.
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2000 Cinématons
Title: 2000 Cinématons
Character: Self
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
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?
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The Man Of The Badlands
Title: The Man Of The Badlands
Character: Self
Released: September 27, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films.
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Le journal de Joseph M.
Title: Le journal de Joseph M.
Released: February 15, 2000
Type: Movie
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I Hate Love
Title: I Hate Love
Character: Raymond
Released: June 11, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Nous sommes tous des cafards
Title: Nous sommes tous des cafards
Character: L'homme
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Chambéry-Les Arcs
Title: Chambéry-Les Arcs
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Belly of America
Title: The Belly of America
Released: February 6, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Imphy, capitale de la France
Title: Imphy, capitale de la France
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Coming to Terms with the Dead
Title: Coming to Terms with the Dead
Character: le commentateur de La vie de l'abeille
Released: October 5, 1994
Type: Movie
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.
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Under the Stars
Title: Under the Stars
Released: April 13, 1994
Type: Movie
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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Up and Down
Title: Up and Down
Character: Le philosophe
Released: March 27, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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La Cabale des oursins
Title: La Cabale des oursins
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
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The Comedy of Work
Title: The Comedy of Work
Character: Monsieur Chômeur
Released: March 2, 1988
Type: Movie
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.
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Essai d'ouverture
Title: Essai d'ouverture
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
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Portrait de groupe
Title: Portrait de groupe
Character: Self
Released: February 5, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Barres
Title: Barres
Released: December 31, 1984
Type: Movie
The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.
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Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
Title: Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
Character: Luc Moullet
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made.
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Cocktail Morlock
Title: Cocktail Morlock
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 1981
Type: Movie
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My First Breaststroke
Title: My First Breaststroke
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Origins of a Meal
Title: Origins of a Meal
Released: February 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Anatomy of a Relationship
Title: Anatomy of a Relationship
Character: He
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A woman's feminist awakening drives an intellectual couple to a relationship crisis.
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A Whale That Had a Toothache
Title: A Whale That Had a Toothache
Character: L'anthropologue
Released: April 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.
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Le Cabot
Title: Le Cabot
Character: L'assistant réalisateur
Released: May 5, 1972
Type: Movie
An assistant director has to kill a dog for a movie scene. But the animal turns out to be very tenacious.
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Title: Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Released: March 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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A Girl Is a Gun
Title: A Girl Is a Gun
Character: The Husband
Released: January 24, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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A Girl Is a Gun
Title: A Girl Is a Gun
Released: January 24, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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The Smugglers
Title: The Smugglers
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Title: Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators
Character: Self
Released: October 22, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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The Surrounded
Title: The Surrounded
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Brigitte and Brigitte
Title: Brigitte and Brigitte
Character: Le cantonnier / L'homme qui achète des journaux
Released: December 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
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L'attentat
Title: L'attentat
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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An Overcooked Steak
Title: An Overcooked Steak
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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.