France/West Germany
Feature Film
Director: Louis Malle
Writers: Louis Malle, Joyce Buñuel
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Cast: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Oblique, opaque, enigmatic, dreamy, baffling, strange, Malle’s curious follow-up to Lacombe, Lucien (1974) – following an adolescent girl on an odyssey to nowhere in particular, upon which she encounters obese unicorns, talking rats and pigs, crying flowers, wild, naked waifs, and an elderly woman who feeds at the breast of her adult daughter – is as strangely and guiltily alluring as its teenaged protagonist, but what any of it means (if anything) is anyone’s guess. Iain.Stott
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