Valseuses

Rating: 60%

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Also known as:

Going Places; Getting It Up; Making It

Year:

1974

Predominant Genre:

Comedy

Best Performances:

Plot:

Three Whites in search of a seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Themes:

Compassion | Personal change | Political Correctness | Self-expression

Similar To (in Plot, Theme & Style):

Review Format:

Cinema

Early, immature work from director Bertrand Blier about the anarchy of carnal desire and coming-to-terms with it regardless of the invidiousness of other people.

The film satirizes Freud’s claim that civilization is only possible if people volitionally repress themselves for the alleged common good, since such a Western attitude leads to such things as drunkenness, sexual promiscuity and the middle class.

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For all its erotic preoccupation, the movie presents little more than the sheer physicality of sex for the young; being content merely to imply the emotional fulfilment and genuine social order that this could presage with the advent of healthily-expressed sexuality.

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Although its picaresque nature eventually palls-through-repetition, the movie is oddly-good at suggesting the smells inherent in human sensuality – a real achievement in a medium with only two senses: Sight & sound.

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