Watching the rather splendid and outrageous Austrian TV series Freud on Netflix prompted us to give this a watch. The TV series has Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria as a key side character up to some very strange antics leading up to the Maylerling incident and this Miklos Jancso extravaganza is no less out of the ordinary. I knew Jancso as a great 60s director of the likes of The Round Up and The Red and the White considering that this more sensational colour film was somehow unworthy. Different it is and despite consisting of one massive and prolonged and explicit orgy for a chunk of its length still most recognisable as a wonderfully choreographed and photographed work of Miklos Jancso. The trials and tribulations of the state are far from the young man's mind as he encourages total abandon in his friends and thereby creating the most stunning and beautifully parade of young flesh. There is a method in Jancso's seeming madness as he presents the youth of the day rejecting so spectacularly the order of the day with all its uniformed pomposity. But the director is speaking also of the 70s and surely is asking just where was all this revolution intended to lead? Was there a positive end game to Paris '68, the Prague Spring or were we all just pi**ing in the wind - or a lady's hat, as here?