Sadly Over-hyped

The first must-see film of the year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

This is one strange movie. German director, Klaus Lemke is at the helm for only his second film and though he went on to make more than forty, I don't seem to know of any of them. Italian actress, Ira von Furstenberg will be recognised (and enjoyed) from 5 Dolls For An August Moon and The Fifth Cord among many others and male lead Gerard Blain is best known for The American Friend. There are many odd things about this movie, the lack of sex scenes and any real action are two but this thing starts so well in full psychedelic mode and doesn't really let up and it seems best to just enjoy the strangeness, the great visuals and the super soundtrack. Acid is not directly referred to though we see cannabis and as I say not really any sex but it certainly has that WTF? quality and I'm certainly classifying it with my, Acid Erotica sub section.