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Jul 18, 2022 · In this controversial and notorious buddy film, director Bertrand Blier (GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS) created what critic Pauline Kael described as “an explos...
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Jovine ★★½. Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.
Synopsis. Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.
Going Places R Released May 13, 1974 1h 57m Comedy Drama List 71% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 86% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings Jean-Claude (Gérard Depardieu) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are crooks.
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The release of Les Valseuses, in March 1974, coincided with, and helped to fuel, a major polemic in France about film censorship. The film came out just a few weeks before the death of the French President Georges Pompidou, whose culture minister, Maurice Druon, had been notoriously pro-censorship.
Going Places is a 1974 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere. Its original title is Les Valseuses, which translates into English as "the waltzers", a vulgar French slang term for "the testicles".
Going Places, released in 1974, was Bertrand Blier's third feature but his first from his own material, in this case an adaptation of his own novel, and it frames his subsequent career of films that explore sex, power, pleasure, desire and disappointment in modern relationships. Where Jean-Luc Godard's criminal rebels, the children of Marx and Coca-Cola of his sixties films, are his take on his era, Blier's portrait of showy machismo, reflexive bad behavior and empty pleasure is his sad ...
