Moullet et Cie

In the French countryside it's the day for peasants to kill a big fat pig. The slaughter goes on for a great part of the day as they work to store 140kg worth of meat.

This landmark documentary by Jean Eustache, filmed in 1968, hilariously exposes small-town pomposity and naiveté as it chronicles the preparations for an annual contest to crown a village’s most virtuous young woman.

A musician has to compose a commissioned work for a film. But his mind is guided by external solicitations that constantly divert him from his work.

An assistant director has to kill a dog for a movie scene. But the animal turns out to be very tenacious.

JEMINA, THE MOUTAIN GIRL is playing with various elements : literary sterotypes of the F.Scott Fitzgerald novel, inflamed romantism of a Viennese waltz, idealized feminine beauty through lengthy shots, some white and some black, burst of color, intrusion of rose, and green. The film is mocking classic hollywood cinema and undertake the fundamental discontinuity of every film, of every filmic text. Pleasure of the text, pleasure of cinema.