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The Smugglers
Les Contrebandières, France, 1968
New digital restoration!
The rugged beauty of the French Alps is an intense backdrop for any story and Luc Moullet makes the most of the contrast with his shaggy satire of the action film. A customs agent runs a smuggling operation across the border of two fictional warring countries keeping a romantic partner on either side of the demarcation line to help. When the two women discover each other, they form an uneasy trio running contraband, evading the authorities, producing agitprop and negotiating modern sexual mores. Moullet throws touches of surrealism and the nonsensical into the unstable mix.
DCP, b&w, in French with English subtitles, 81 min. Director: Luc Moullet. Screenwriter: Luc Moullet. With: Françoise Vatel, Monique Thiriet, Johnny Monteilhet.
A Girl is a Gun
Une aventure de Billy le Kid, France, 1971
New digital restoration!
French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud stars in Luc Moullet’s bizarro Western as a gun-slinging outlaw who stumbles across a beautiful woman (Rachel Kesterber) with a secret while on the run from a posse across the scorching desert. Unreleased in France at the time, the film played internationally in an English dubbed version that gave Léaud the deep voice of a Hollywood B-movie actor much to Moullet’s delight. Such goofy contrasts abound in a film that features both stunning landscapes and obviously fake mustaches as Moullet revels in making a Western even as he dismantles it.
DCP, color, in French and English with English subtitles, 78 min. Director: Luc Moullet. Screenwriter: Luc Moullet. With: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Rachel Kesterber, Jean Valmont.
