The Moon by Our Teeth
MovieTitle | La lune avec les dents |
User score | 7.8 |
Release date | Feb 16, 1967 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Michel Soutter |
Production country | Switzerland |
Run time | 78 min. |
The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness - until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William's life - a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction. With his roots in documentary, Soutter excelled at creating a loose, vibrant cinema, full of quick zooms and dynamic hand-held shots, with dialogue that often alternated between outright quotations and stylized interviews.