Luc Moullet Movies

Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma and terminal cinephile, plans to write about the Vittorio Cottafavi retrospective at the Alcazar,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks...

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...

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

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs...

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

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...

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

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

Luc Moullet’s surprisingly tender look at Catherine Breillat, whose powerful explorations of female sexuality continue to divide audiences...