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Tag Archives: Luc Moullet
Les sièges de l’Alcazar (1989) Luc Moullet, Olivier Maltinti, Elizabeth Moreau, Sabine Haudepin
Paris, 1955. Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma, often goes to see the films of Vittorio Cottafavi in a local cinema. Read More »
A Girl Is a Gun AKA Une aventure de Billy le Kid (1971) Luc Moullet, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont
Despite most Cahiers du cinéma critics admired many western authors, when they themselves became filmmakers few dared to overtly revisit that genre. Read More »
Up and Down AKA Parpaillon (1993) Luc Moullet, Jean Abeillé, Clément Boutterin, Brigitte Canaan
A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. Read More »
Shipwrecked on Route D 17 AKA Les naufragés de la D17 (2002) Luc Moullet, Patrick Bouchitey, Iliana Lolitch, Sabine Haudepin
During the Gulf War, the paths of several groups of characters cross in France’s most desert-like region. Read More »
Anatomy of a Relationship (1976) Luc Moullet, Christine Hébert, Antonietta Pizzorno
A woman’s feminist awakening drives an intellectual couple to a relationship crisis. Read More »
Brigitte and Brigitte (1966) Luc Moullet, Colette Descombes, Françoise Vatel, Claude Melki
A twenty minute documentary about the two smallest French villages. Read More »
Les Contrebandières / The Smugglers (1968) Luc Moullet, Françoise Vatel, Monique Thiriet, Johnny Monteilhet, Comedy
Two young women leave the claustrophobic existence of the big city behind and move to a small border town. They get caught up with a border guard who is involved in smuggling from both sides of the border. When the border changes as a result of a political realignment, the two young women end up living with the guard. Both fall for the man, but jealousy rears its ugly head and they move back to the city. The ever-restless women soon leave the city behind and return to the border where they continue their youthful romps with the guard and other willing participants. The guard has women on both sides of the line who help in his illegal activities.
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