Les Valseuses
Bertrand Blier
Two friends, Jean-Claude and Pierrot, live off petty crime until they borrow a Citroën DS and things go awry. They manage to escape taking Marie-Ange, who is just as lost as they are, with them. Pierrot is wounded by a bullet which almost emasculated him, making him afraid of being impotent, whereas Marie-Ange discovers she is frigid. On the run, they criss-cross the roads of France bent on enjoying themselves.
With : Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey, Isabelle Huppert
Screenplay : Bertrand Blier, Philippe Dumarçay
Image : Bruno Nuytten
Editing : Kenout Peltier
Music : Stéphane Grappeli
Screenplay : Bertrand Blier, Philippe Dumarçay
Image : Bruno Nuytten
Editing : Kenout Peltier
Music : Stéphane Grappeli
Production : C.A.P.A.C., SN Prodis
Distribution: Tamasa
Distribution: Tamasa
Les Valseuses (Going Places) is a road movie which travels through a certain France of the 1970s: a France of by-roads, social housing, supermarket car parks or prison exits – seen through the eyes of two young misfits, a couple of louts on the run looking for freedom and fun. When this dark, insolent comedy was released, with its crude dialogues and situations, the young director through a cat among the proverbial pigeons of the ambient moral rigidity and conformism, attracting more than 5 million viewers. This popular triumph also consecrated four as yet unknown actors who would go on to be extremely important in Bertrand Blier's work, and not much later in French and international cinema: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou Miou and Isabelle Huppert.