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Barres
France, 1983
Human ingenuity and perseverance are on full display in Luc Moullet’s cheeky look at the imaginative ways average Parisians have devised to get over, under and around the ticket barriers at metro stations.
DCP, color, in French with English subtitles, 15 min. Director: Luc Moullet. Screenwriter: Luc Moullet. With: Jean Abeillé, René Gilson, Jean-Pierre Bonneau.
Up and Down
Parpaillon, France, 1992
New digital restoration!
A loving, slapstick sendup of the French passion for cycling that doubles as an ode to 19th century French symbolist poet Alfred Jarry, Luc Moullet’s Up and Down (Parpaillon) may be the most French thing ever. A mountain road rally up the Parpaillon pass in the French Alps is the simple line on which Moullet hangs a series of gags broad and obscure (depending how versed you are, for example, in the inner tube vs. clincher debate) that have the cumulative effect of slow-release laughing gas.
DCP, color, in French with English subtitles, 93 min. Director: Luc Moullet. Screenwriter: Luc Moullet. With: Brigitte Canaan, Rémy Henri, Claude Melki.
Shipwrecked on Route D 17
Les Naufragés de la D17, France, 2001
High in the French Alps during the opening days of the Iraq War, an astronomer grows jealous of his assistant’s relationship with a shepherd, a veteran race car driver sends his new co-pilot for help after getting stranded at the side of the road, and a squad of confused French soldiers patrol the mountainside for Iraqi invaders. These are just a few of the coterie of characters who stumble across and around each other in Luc Moullet’s thin air satire of just about everything.
DCP, b&w, in French with English subtitles, 81 min. Director: Luc Moullet. Screenwriter: Luc Moullet. With: Patrick Bouchitey, Iliana Lolic, Sabine Haudepin.
