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THE SMUGGLERS
1968
Director
Luc Moullet
Starring
Françoise Vatel
Monique Thiriet
Albert Juross
Runtime
81 minutes
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A truly singular object that is both a loving spoof of Hollywood action thrillers and a sociological send-up of the burgeoning student movement, THE SMUGGLERS follows a customs agent running a smuggling operation across the border of two fictional warring countries while 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.
"Moullet, the smuggler filmmaker, meshing Mizoguchi, Ulmer, Godard, Tati, Keaton in a political film that's also an adventure, a comedy, a western, an erotic film, an experimental essay, and of course ultimately a Moullet film, this unclassifiable certificate of freedom and creativity we can find in no other artist of the medium." - Diogo Serafim
Film restored by La Traverse with the assistance of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC). Restorations carried out by Cosmodigital and L.E. Diapason and distributed in North America by Cinema Guild.
A truly singular object that is both a loving spoof of Hollywood action thrillers and a sociological send-up of the burgeoning student movement, THE SMUGGLERS follows a customs agent running a smuggling operation across the border of two fictional warring countries while 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.
"Moullet, the smuggler filmmaker, meshing Mizoguchi, Ulmer, Godard, Tati, Keaton in a political film that's also an adventure, a comedy, a western, an erotic film, an experimental essay, and of course ultimately a Moullet film, this unclassifiable certificate of freedom and creativity we can find in no other artist of the medium." - Diogo Serafim
Film restored by La Traverse with the assistance of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC). Restorations carried out by Cosmodigital and L.E. Diapason and distributed in North America by Cinema Guild.