Luc Moullet

A twenty minute documentary about the two smallest French villages. Then, Paris, 1960s. Two girls named Brigitte from the two villages share an apartment and study at the Sorbonne. (imdb)

In a deadpan riff on navel-gazing French sex dramas, director Moullet plays himself in a docudrama set largely in bed. An actress stands in (or lies in, as the case may be) for real-life partner and co-director Pizzorno, to reenact the couplings and quarrels of a pair of prickly intellectuals.

Starting from a breakfast, Moullet traces each of the items back through the importation, manufacturing and cultivation process.

Short film about skipping fare on the subway.

A Man tries different ways to open a Coca Cola bottle. (imdb)

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

Billy the Kid (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is both ruthless and bumbling in this impressionistic French-made western. Ruthless, in that he tracks down a witness to a robbery and kills him in cold blood. Bumbling, in that he literally stumbles over things throughout the film. He is also lucky, one might add, as instead of exacting revenge as she had planned, the bereaved girlfriend of a man he has shot walks off into the fabled sunset with Billy. (the auteurs)

Two young women leave the claustrophobic existence of the big city behind and move to a small border town.

Paris, 1955. Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma, often goes to see the films of Vittorio Cottafavi in a local cinema. One day he notices that Jeanne, film critic of "Positive ", the rival magazine, seems to be following him. He is intrigued. (imdb)

During the Gulf War, in the most barren region of France, the paths of several groups of people cross, just like in a ballet. (Blaq Out)

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. (imdb)

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

Short based on a story by Henry James.

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. (jonathanrosenbaum.net)

A 1960 French language short film written and directed by Luc Moullet, starring Jacqueline Finnaert, Patrice Moullet and Patrice Moullet. (Mubi)

From the very beginning, film comedy focused on the world of work. From exploitation to unemployment, from adaptation to resistance, directors multiplied their points of view on survival in the modern world, especially from Chaplin on. With a humor superceding certain conventions and steering towards an eminently political dimension, Moullet follows three characters in order to build one of the blackest satires about the conflict arising from our everyday relation with work. (imdb)

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing". (Letterboxd)

Inspired in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus (1917), but turning what once was drama into a black comedy, Moullet stages a deviant remake in order to put forward his reflections about fame and his own work by telling the story of a film director, played by Moullet himself, who feigns his own death and adopts a new identity. (imdb)

In "My First Breast Stroke" the director whimsically describes his learning to finally swim at an advanced age as "the most important event since man walked on the Moon." (imdb)

An extremely unusual film on a very conventional subject: the description of a small French town. (mubi.com)

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. (muni.com)

In order to climb a peak, two young walkers arrive at the Zsygmondy mountain refuge the night before. But the girls find there's only one single place left. (imdb)

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

A short personal filmed journal about the director's nervousness in presenting a script and awaiting the decision about whether it can be made. (imdb)

Moulett analyzes the work of his friend Godard.

A humourous tour of the library.