Luc Moullet

Luc Moullet

Nacimiento : 1937-10-14, Paris, France

Historia

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.

Perfil

Luc Moullet
Luc Moullet

Películas

Assemblée générale
Writer
The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd.
Assemblée générale
Director
The annual general assembly of the co-owners : quarrels about nothing, the collapse of the management agency, that turns becomes absurd.
Luc Moullet (et Patricio Guzmán) à Manosque III
Luc Moullet à Manosque II
Catherine Breillat: The First Time
Director
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 films.
Luc Moullet (Éric Pauwels et Jeon Soo-Il) à Manosque I
La rouge et la noire
Screenplay
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.
La rouge et la noire
The Boss
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.
L'imprésario
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 !
Toujours moins
Writer
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.
Toujours moins
Director
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.
Balance et Cécité
Director
Chef d'œuvre ?
Director
A comic essay about the value of the short film.
Land of Madness
Writer
Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.
Land of Madness
Director
Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.
Land of Madness
Himself
Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.
Grand Guignol
Death's Glamour
Luc Moullet
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...
Death's Glamour
Writer
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...
Death's Glamour
Director
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...
Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc
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.
Jean-Luc as Seen by Luc
Director
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
Le vendeur de guitares
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.
Film sans titre - La Maison de production
Director
Le Litre de lait
Director
Going to buy milk from the farmer next-door can be a real drama.
Périssable Paradis
15 years through Le Bois de Vincennes - The "before" and "after" 1999 storm destructions.
Wrecked on Road 17
Writer
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 she seems to prefer the shepherd who’s been relegated to a shabby hut nearby. A group of filmmakers stuck in the middle of the countryside after their crew went on strike because lunch never turned up. A squadron of stupid soldiers who consider even the most minor incident to be proof of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of France. A maniacal geologist, oblivious of everything, who continues to search for the traces of a tectonic Big Bang in the most inaccessible places.
Wrecked on Road 17
Director
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 she seems to prefer the shepherd who’s been relegated to a shabby hut nearby. A group of filmmakers stuck in the middle of the countryside after their crew went on strike because lunch never turned up. A squadron of stupid soldiers who consider even the most minor incident to be proof of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of France. A maniacal geologist, oblivious of everything, who continues to search for the traces of a tectonic Big Bang in the most inaccessible places.
2000 Cinématons
Self
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?
The Man Of The Badlands
Self
A documentary about Luc Moullet and the mountainous locations featured in his films.
Le journal de Joseph M.
The Zsigmondy System
Writer
Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is.
The Zsigmondy System
Director
Two young girls find out, in the hard way, that climb mountains isn't all that fun that people often say it is.
I Hate Love
Raymond
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.
Nous sommes tous des cafards
Writer
Nous sommes tous des cafards
Director
Nous sommes tous des cafards
L'homme
Chambéry-Les Arcs
Self
The Belly of America
Writer
Short film of Luc Moullet
The Belly of America
Director
Short film of Luc Moullet
The Belly of America
Short film of Luc Moullet
Le Fantôme de Longstaff
Director
Wonderful short by Moullet based on a Henry James short story.
Imphy, capitale de la France
Screenplay
Imphy, capitale de la France
Director
Imphy, capitale de la France
Pequeños arreglos con los muertos
le commentateur de La vie de l'abeille
Es verano, en la playa de una pequeña ciudad de Bretaña, un hombre de unos 40 años está construyendo un castillo de arena. Unas cuantas personas lo observan. Se nos contará la historia de tres de ellos: un niño, Jumbo, de 9 años; François, de 30 años, y su hermana Zaza, de unos 40 años. Todos ellos tuvieron que lidiar con la muerte de alguien a quien apreciaban. ¿Cómo seguir viviendo después de esto?
Foix
Director
A sightseeing tour of Foix (Ariège), “the most cheesy town in France”.
Toujours plus
Writer
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.
Toujours plus
Director
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
Le philosophe
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.
Up and Down
Writer
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.
Up and Down
Director
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.
La Cabale des oursins
(uncredited)
A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
La Cabale des oursins
Director
A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.
Aérroporrr d'Orrrrly
Director
Les Sièges de l'Alcazar
Screenplay
El lugar es París en 1955. Guy es un crítico de cine de la revista "Cahiers du Cinéma", y un fanático del director italiano Vittorio Cottafavi, a quien considera muy superior a Michelangelo Antonioni. El lugar que frecuenta para ver películas es el Alcazar, un cine de barrio de París que pertenece a una pareja mayor con poco interés en el cine, y mucho interés en el dinero. Un día, el Alcazar recibe una visita inesperada: Es Jeanne, crítica de cine de la revista rival "Positif" ("Cahiers" y "Positif" eran en realidad las revistas de cine más importantes de la época), que - para disgusto de Guy - es una gran fan de Antonioni. Discuten acaloradamente por las películas, pero de alguna manera él se siente intrigado y atraído por ella...
Les Sièges de l'Alcazar
Director
El lugar es París en 1955. Guy es un crítico de cine de la revista "Cahiers du Cinéma", y un fanático del director italiano Vittorio Cottafavi, a quien considera muy superior a Michelangelo Antonioni. El lugar que frecuenta para ver películas es el Alcazar, un cine de barrio de París que pertenece a una pareja mayor con poco interés en el cine, y mucho interés en el dinero. Un día, el Alcazar recibe una visita inesperada: Es Jeanne, crítica de cine de la revista rival "Positif" ("Cahiers" y "Positif" eran en realidad las revistas de cine más importantes de la época), que - para disgusto de Guy - es una gran fan de Antonioni. Discuten acaloradamente por las películas, pero de alguna manera él se siente intrigado y atraído por ella...
The Comedy of Work
Director
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.
Essai d'ouverture
A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
Essai d'ouverture
Scenario Writer
A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
Essai d'ouverture
Director
A man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle.
La Valse des médias
Director
L'Empire de Médor
Director
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 animals has become a kind of surrogate religion for many people. He takes us to canine beauticians and beauty contests, and explores the field from dried dog food to advanced super-duper pooper-scoopers. By showing in great detail all those gadgets and gimmicks to make the lives of pets as agreeable as possible, Moullet vents his barely concealed criticism of consumer society. (IDFA)
Portrait de groupe
Self
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
Writer
Creativas formas para evadir las barreras económicas que cotidianamente nos impone el sistema capitalista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Barres
Creativas formas para evadir las barreras económicas que cotidianamente nos impone el sistema capitalista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Barres
Director
Creativas formas para evadir las barreras económicas que cotidianamente nos impone el sistema capitalista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
Luc Moullet
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 Minutes d'un faiseur de film
Director
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
Writer
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 himself. First part of an aborted "Le Havre seen by ...".
Les Havres
Director
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 himself. First part of an aborted "Le Havre seen by ...".
Cocktail Morlock
Self
My First Breaststroke
Writer
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.
My First Breaststroke
Director
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.
My First Breaststroke
Himself
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.
Genèse d'un repas
El film comienza con Moullet y su pareja desayunando bananas, huevos y atún. La pregunta que da origen al documental es: ¿de dónde provienen estos alimentos? Así, Moullet averigua qué compañías los fabrican y comienza una investigación que lo lleva a África y a Ecuador, a los orígenes de la cadena productiva del atún y la banana, respectivamente. ¿Quiénes son estos trabajadores? ¿Cuánto ganan? ¿Ganan más o menos que trabajadores franceses? ¿Qué comen? ¿Cómo viven? Moullet intenta responder estas preguntas desde una perspectiva marxista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Genèse d'un repas
Director
El film comienza con Moullet y su pareja desayunando bananas, huevos y atún. La pregunta que da origen al documental es: ¿de dónde provienen estos alimentos? Así, Moullet averigua qué compañías los fabrican y comienza una investigación que lo lleva a África y a Ecuador, a los orígenes de la cadena productiva del atún y la banana, respectivamente. ¿Quiénes son estos trabajadores? ¿Cuánto ganan? ¿Ganan más o menos que trabajadores franceses? ¿Qué comen? ¿Cómo viven? Moullet intenta responder estas preguntas desde una perspectiva marxista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet
Himself
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.
Anatomía de una relación
Writer
El y Ella, sin nombres que los identifiquen, pero con conversaciones y reflexiones que los hacen únicos. Un director de cine y su mujer. Una pareja que malvive el sexo mientras intentan descubrir el porque están juntos.
Anatomía de una relación
He
El y Ella, sin nombres que los identifiquen, pero con conversaciones y reflexiones que los hacen únicos. Un director de cine y su mujer. Una pareja que malvive el sexo mientras intentan descubrir el porque están juntos.
Anatomía de una relación
Director
El y Ella, sin nombres que los identifiquen, pero con conversaciones y reflexiones que los hacen únicos. Un director de cine y su mujer. Una pareja que malvive el sexo mientras intentan descubrir el porque están juntos.
A Whale That Had a Toothache
L'anthropologue
Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.
The Pig
Producer
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
Producer
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 the day is when a washing machine salesman comes to call.
Le Cabot
Producer
Le Cabot
L'assistant réalisateur
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
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.
A Girl Is a Gun
The Husband
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.
A Girl Is a Gun
Producer
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.
A Girl Is a Gun
Writer
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.
A Girl Is a Gun
Director
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
Executive Producer
The Smugglers
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.
The Smugglers
Director
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.
Le jeune cinéma : Godard et ses émules
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.
Brigitte and Brigitte
Writer
Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
Brigitte and Brigitte
Director
Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
Terres noires
Writer
Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing"
Terres noires
Editor
Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing"
Terres noires
Director
Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing"
An overcooked steak
Writer
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.
An overcooked steak
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.
An overcooked steak
Director
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.