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Details :
(aka Les Valseuses). Produced by Universal Pictures France, Société Nouvelle Prodis (French), and C.A.P.A.C. (France), 1974. Written and directed by Bertrand Blier (Menage, Too Beautiful for You, Merci la Vie, Buffet Friod, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs). Filmed in Valence, France. French with English subtitles.
Cast:
Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau.
Plot Summary:
As is true in many Blier movies, plot is less relevant than relationships and characterization. Thus through much of the film we see Jean-Claude (Depardieu) and his pal Pierrot (Dewaere) bumming around terrorizing people and committing petty crimes without there being much of a real purpose to each scene (we don't, for example, ever see most of their victims again). They terrorize an old woman and snatch her purse, steal a car, break into an empty beach house, hassle a nursing mother on a train and generally behave like immature, trashy, sex-obsessed punks. Things change a bit when they meet up with an ex-con woman named Jeanne, who shakes their bravado. They settle down with Marie-Ange (Miou Miou) in something of a domestic arrangement, but in the end they are still on the lam with no real direction or purpose.
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