Luc Moullet
Born in 1937, Luc Moullet was a film buff from an early age and joined Cahiers du Cinéma at the age of 18, working with Truffaut, Rivette, Godard, Chabrol, and Rohmer. He made his first films in 1960. From 1966, he became an actor as well as a producer (of his own films, but also for Jean Eustache and Marguerite Duras). To date, he made 38 films of all kinds and genres (comedy, adventure, western, erotic, diary, road movie, documentary, detective...). All of them are linked by the through-line of Ariadne, stretched from beginning to end: the comic. Considered the only burlesque filmmaker of the New Wave, he looks at humanity and the society around him in order to reveal its flaws. Cinema has many historians, but few geographers: Luc Moullet is one of the latter. Originally from the Southern Alps, he has never stopped filming its terrain.
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La cabale des oursins
The “urchins” in question are slag heaps, the vast mounds formed by the waste from former mines. The "cabal" is launched by Moullet himself, considering the contempt in which these mountains of waste removed from the subsoil by generations of miners are held. He undertakes their ascent, review and praise, leading us - with rigour and humour - to love them.
My First Breaststroke
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"In 1980, Jean Collet, who was in charge of a collection at the National Audiovisual Institut, asked me to shoot one of the six planned TV films on the theme _Le Grand Jour_ (The Big Day). Not knowing how to swim, I imagined that it would be a great day for me in which I would finally learn. Just to amuse myself, because I don't give a damn if I can swim or not. So the film tells the story of m...
Genesis of a Meal
Questioning the origins of his food, Luc Moullet traces the economic circuits of tuna, eggs, and bananas. A documentary that unquestionably denounces the exploitation of the Third World by Western countries.
Anatomy of a Relationship
He works in the film industry, she's a teacher. They are bored to death. Soon, she gives up. They have been in a relationship for three years, they have a sex life, but one day, she wants out. Without him ever realizing, she has never experienced pleasure with him. He rebels and together they work on their technique.
La cabale des oursins
The “urchins” in question are slag heaps, the vast mounds formed by the waste from former mines. The "cabal" is launched by Moullet himself, considering the contempt in which these mountains of waste removed from the subsoil by generations of miners are held. He undertakes their ascent, review and praise, leading us - with rigour and humour - to love them.
My First Breaststroke
Subscription access
"In 1980, Jean Collet, who was in charge of a collection at the National Audiovisual Institut, asked me to shoot one of the six planned TV films on the theme _Le Grand Jour_ (The Big Day). Not knowing how to swim, I imagined that it would be a great day for me in which I would finally learn. Just to amuse myself, because I don't give a damn if I can swim or not. So the film tells the story of m...
Genesis of a Meal
Questioning the origins of his food, Luc Moullet traces the economic circuits of tuna, eggs, and bananas. A documentary that unquestionably denounces the exploitation of the Third World by Western countries.
Anatomy of a Relationship
He works in the film industry, she's a teacher. They are bored to death. Soon, she gives up. They have been in a relationship for three years, they have a sex life, but one day, she wants out. Without him ever realizing, she has never experienced pleasure with him. He rebels and together they work on their technique.
