The Moon by Our Teeth

7.8
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 78 min
  • Premiere: 1967. February 16.

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.

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William Wissmer

William Tudor

Noëlle Frémont

Noëlle Laurencin

Janet Haufler

La comédienne

Manuela Dahm

La chanteuse US

Camera

Jean Zeller

Director of Photography

Directing

Michel Soutter

Director

Jean-Charles Pellaud

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Anita Oser

Producer

Michel Soutter

Producer

Sound

Writing

Camera

Jean Zeller

Director of Photography

Directing

Michel Soutter

Director

Jean-Charles Pellaud

Assistant Director

Editing

Production

Anita Oser

Producer

Michel Soutter

Producer

Sound

Writing