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Going Places (1974, Fr.) (aka
Les Valseuses)
In Bertrand Blier's debut film - an erotic yet anarchic
French-style Easy Rider road film
(the title literally meant: "testicles") about two misogynistic,
sexually-depraved fugitives on the run through France:
- in the film's opening, two
offensive, unlovable, small-time bohemian crooks sought by the
police for car theft were introduced:
- Jean-Claude (Gérard
Depardieu)
- Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere)
- both males were
obsessed with abusive sex during a wild, aimless journey in
the French countryside in the company of bored, dim-witted,
blonde beautician's assistant Marie-Ange (Miou-Miou) - a young
kidnapped hostage; they became utterly frustrated that they
couldn't cure Marie-Ange of her orgasmic frigidity
Kidnapped, Unorgasmic Marie-Ange (Miou-Miou)
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- in a threatening yet erotic scene, the
two paired up to intimidate a 'Woman in the Train' (Brigitte Fossey),
a lactating mother in an empty coach car with a baby; Pierrot opened
her blouse and bra from the front and then touched and sucked on
her right breast's nipple while Jean-Claude fondled her left breast
- recently-released, empowered ex-convict,
40-ish Jeanne Pirolle (Jeanne Moreau) arrived into their company;
she was more passionate and taught the two men about love - as a threesome
- Jeanne revealed to a waitress
in a restaurant after lunch that she had strangely stopped menstruating
while imprisoned: "You see, I just got out of prison, I spent
10 years in a cold, wet cell. I haven't menstruated in years. No
more blood - nothing. At first, my period was late. They gave me
aspirin at the infirmary. Then it came later and later. 2 weeks,
3 weeks, a month. After a while, you forget about it. That's when
it goes away completely"; she explained to the stunned waitress
why she was telling her this tale: "So you understand how lucky
you are to bleed every month even if it makes you irritable. It doesn't
matter, the bad moods, painful ovaries, it's not important. What
matters is bleeding. You understand?"
- in another startling scene, after love-making in
a hotel room with the two men, Jeanne awakened, snuck off to the
adjoining room, took a pistol, and suicidally shot herself
in the crotch
- the group met up with a picnicking
family, and took away the wayward, virginal, bourgeois teenager
Jacqueline (Isabelle Huppert) after robbing her family, to form
a quartet; they deflowered her in a field as Marie-Ange cradled
the young girl's head in her lap
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Pierrot, Marie-Ange, and Jean-Claude - Romp in the Countryside
"Woman in the Train" Scene
Jacqueline (Isabelle Huppert) Cradling Her Head in Marie-Ange's
Lap
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