Kritiken (1)
The French New Wave in the francophone part of Switzerland and, above all, a film about rebellion. The minimalist plot and runtime, with slightly experimental and quite ironic elements, conceal an intentionally illogical story about a rebel that encompasses protest on several levels - from left-wing critique of the wealthy bourgeois society, through a wannabe American punk with a leather jacket and sunglasses, to a torn poet with a world-weary sense for interesting metaphors. The whole film plays out in an ironic spirit (which does not exclude appropriate and serious observations about the world), but above all, it is ironic in its narrative structure in that at the end, it literally plays with its characters and with the prejudices of the audience. It is precisely through this self-reflection that the film approaches (the half-Swiss) Godard, and if we use his early filmography (which Soutter undoubtedly drew inspiration from) for a concise summary of this film, we can say that The Moon by Our Teeth is a combination of Breathless, Band of Outsiders, and Le Petit Soldat.
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