An atrocious waste of time.
The story plods along so slowly, I expected the clothing trends to change as the movie went on.
Woodenly acted, poorly directed, even Charlotte Rampling with her limited but "70s-pretty-faced" range can't help that, especially after the only interesting thing about her character gets sidelined thirty minutes in.
An absolute disgrace to the novel, the south of France, the Romani, and movie-making generally.
I gleaned all that from the first 54 minutes. I couldn't bear another.
I only gave it three stars because of the countryside, the Fiat X-19, and the absolutely abhorrent continuity in the first ten minutes re the gun used. Three stars for putting a silencer on a revolver, it turning into an automatic later in the scene (with a non-suppressed report when fired), then back to a revolver the scene following. That was the entertainment.
Seriously, you're better off watching a 1970's Film Studies end-of-year project.
I gleaned all that from the first 54 minutes. I couldn't bear another.
I only gave it three stars because of the countryside, the Fiat X-19, and the absolutely abhorrent continuity in the first ten minutes re the gun used. Three stars for putting a silencer on a revolver, it turning into an automatic later in the scene (with a non-suppressed report when fired), then back to a revolver the scene following. That was the entertainment.
Seriously, you're better off watching a 1970's Film Studies end-of-year project.