Les valseuses (1974)
(Going Places)
Country: FR
Technical: col 118m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis:
A pair of young men leave their provincial town and set off on a crime spree, wantonly seducing and stealing whatever they can from their bourgeois victims.
Review:
A film which caught the zeitgeist and launched the careers of most of those associated with it. It says a lot about the state of the nation, the mai '68 dream gone sour, caught in the oil crisis, and with a growing sense of dispossession among the young, particularly in the provinces. The French title is slang for 'testicles' and the film deliberately sets out to 'épater les bourgeois' as much as its characters, whom it does not condemn. Viewed through this prism it is by turns fascinating social history and liberatingly funny.
(Going Places)
Country: FR
Technical: col 118m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis:
A pair of young men leave their provincial town and set off on a crime spree, wantonly seducing and stealing whatever they can from their bourgeois victims.
Review:
A film which caught the zeitgeist and launched the careers of most of those associated with it. It says a lot about the state of the nation, the mai '68 dream gone sour, caught in the oil crisis, and with a growing sense of dispossession among the young, particularly in the provinces. The French title is slang for 'testicles' and the film deliberately sets out to 'épater les bourgeois' as much as its characters, whom it does not condemn. Viewed through this prism it is by turns fascinating social history and liberatingly funny.
(Going Places)
Country: FR
Technical: col 118m
Director: Bertrand Blier
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau
Synopsis:
A pair of young men leave their provincial town and set off on a crime spree, wantonly seducing and stealing whatever they can from their bourgeois victims.
Review:
A film which caught the zeitgeist and launched the careers of most of those associated with it. It says a lot about the state of the nation, the mai '68 dream gone sour, caught in the oil crisis, and with a growing sense of dispossession among the young, particularly in the provinces. The French title is slang for 'testicles' and the film deliberately sets out to 'épater les bourgeois' as much as its characters, whom it does not condemn. Viewed through this prism it is by turns fascinating social history and liberatingly funny.