Themes: Arrested Adolescence, Playing the Field, Nothing Goes Right
Main Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Jacques Chailleux
Release Year: 1974
Country: FR
Run Time: 118 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Director Bertrand Blier's Les Valseuses features Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere as a pair of sociopaths wending their way across France. Though Depardieu is the more dominant of the two, both men are equally culpable in their disregard for common decency. They are particularly rough on women, even the like-minded Miou-Miou, whom they both love in their own way. Jeanne Moreau has a brief bit as an ex-convict who sleeps with both Depardieu and Dewaere. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Going Places (French: Les Valseuses) is a 1974French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier, adapted from a novel by Bertrand Blier, and starring Miou-Miou and Gerard Depardieu. The French title actually translates into English as "the bollocks" (a vulgar British term for the testicles).
"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 bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure."[1]
