I don't even know where to begin but I certainly cannot believe this awful movie has such good ratings on IMDb. It makes absolutely no sense when the writing, the acting, the directing and even the music are so dramatically bad.
Forget about realism, romance, erotism or whatever, the woman played by Romy Schneider is hysterical half the time. Her husband is a weirdo who suddenly decides to poison himself in the rest room of some café just after she has told him that she loves him more than anything else. Then we see her at the morgue and who is already standing there, next to the body? No one else but her (wannabe or soon to be) lover who bursts out laughing, saying her husband should have killed himself before meeting her. Then of course she tells him that nothing can ever happen between them after this.
And what do we see next ? An old woman putting on a strap on dildo to rape a young naked girl who has passed out. That does it and the « hero » of the movie decides to stop taking pictures of orgies and disgusting sexual encounters. Old men decide to beat him up ; Nadine, in tears, finds him on the floor, covered in blood and says « je t'aime » repeatedly, the movie thereby ending just as it has begun. Indeed the movie starts when Servais takes pictures of Nadine acting but having trouble with her role : she is asked to tell a dead man she loves him but that makes her cry. Funny thing: in this opening scene she tells the director that she cannot do it because the movie is too bad.
That is spot on. The movie in which Nadine pretends to be playing could never be as bad as the one in which Romy really played. I have rarely seen such a « navet ». It beggars belief that Romy Schneider got a César for this terrible film or that it was released in dvd.
If you want to get a feel of how dumb people were in the 70s go ahead and rent it at your local library but please, do not give it a raving review when everything about it is grotesque and ridiculous.
Forget about realism, romance, erotism or whatever, the woman played by Romy Schneider is hysterical half the time. Her husband is a weirdo who suddenly decides to poison himself in the rest room of some café just after she has told him that she loves him more than anything else. Then we see her at the morgue and who is already standing there, next to the body? No one else but her (wannabe or soon to be) lover who bursts out laughing, saying her husband should have killed himself before meeting her. Then of course she tells him that nothing can ever happen between them after this.
And what do we see next ? An old woman putting on a strap on dildo to rape a young naked girl who has passed out. That does it and the « hero » of the movie decides to stop taking pictures of orgies and disgusting sexual encounters. Old men decide to beat him up ; Nadine, in tears, finds him on the floor, covered in blood and says « je t'aime » repeatedly, the movie thereby ending just as it has begun. Indeed the movie starts when Servais takes pictures of Nadine acting but having trouble with her role : she is asked to tell a dead man she loves him but that makes her cry. Funny thing: in this opening scene she tells the director that she cannot do it because the movie is too bad.
That is spot on. The movie in which Nadine pretends to be playing could never be as bad as the one in which Romy really played. I have rarely seen such a « navet ». It beggars belief that Romy Schneider got a César for this terrible film or that it was released in dvd.
If you want to get a feel of how dumb people were in the 70s go ahead and rent it at your local library but please, do not give it a raving review when everything about it is grotesque and ridiculous.