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Shipwrecked on Route D 17
(Les Naufragés de la D17)

Screening on Film
Directed by Luc Moullet.
With Patrick Bouchitey, Iliana Lolitch, Sabine Haudepin.
France, 2002, 35mm, color, 81 min.
French with English subtitles.

Moullet's most recent film, a Gulf War comedy, is a manifesto for a new free cinema. A race-car driver and his partner are waylaid when he accidentally drives over a sink-hole on a mountain path. The process of digging out puts them in contact with a couple of astrophysicians on the outs, a goat-tending shepherd with mysterious sexual power, a broken-down film crew shooting a western in the mountains, and a lost military patrol hoping to capture Saddam Hussein in the Southern Alps. 

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