As much as I hated this movie, I can't hate it entirely because it propelled one of my favorite actors, Gérard Depardieu, into instant stardom. The only reason I kept watching it all the way through was to give his breakthrough film proper respect.
Going Places is not my cup of tea at all. Two drifters, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, wreck havoc, commit crimes, and have a lot of sex with different women. A simple diagnostic, but that's really the entire movie.
First, they pick up Miou-Miou, a hairdresser-and by pick up, I mean kidnap. Gérard and Patrick take turns with her in bed, but since she's not as responsive as they'd like, they give up on her. They give her the ol' college try, believe me. I'm shocked this movie wasn't X-rated. At the time, it was the nastiest movie I'd ever seen, and in the past nine years since, I've only seen one film that was filthier. In the beginning, there's an extremely nasty scene that serves to separate the ladies from the girls. Gérard and Patrick are riding on a bus and fondle Brigitte Fossey, a total stranger, so explicitly, it's embarrassing to watch. When she leaves the bus and is greeted by her husband, the two hellions giggle to themselves that she'll be thinking of them later on while she's with her husband. If you can't handle that scene, you can't handle the rest of the movie. It only gets worse: more explicit, more sick, more upsetting.
After Miou-Miou, they pick up Jeanne Moreau and add her to the mix-yes, I mean that literally. Once she's out of the picture, in an extremely upsetting scene that unfortunately hasn't left my brain over the past nine years, they return to Miou-Miou. More crimes, more sex scenes, and then finally, Isabelle Huppert, an innocent teenager. Do you think they take pity on her innocence, or do you think they corrupt her? If you can't guess the answer to that, you really shouldn't be watching this movie.
As for anyone who should be watching this movie, there's really a limited ideal audience. Those who really love nasty foreign movies, and those who think any one of the leads is wildly attractive and want to watch him or her in the nastiest R-rated movie ever made. Anyone else will probably be scared for life. And feminists, don't even think about renting it. The depiction of mindless women who allow themselves to be used like sex toys without any thought to pregnancy, STDs, or self-respect will make you go crazy. Jeanne Moreau's character is the only one who seems to understand the repercussions of such despicable behavior, and the most upsetting scene comes after her realization.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to nudity, violence, and graphic sex scenes, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.
Going Places is not my cup of tea at all. Two drifters, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, wreck havoc, commit crimes, and have a lot of sex with different women. A simple diagnostic, but that's really the entire movie.
First, they pick up Miou-Miou, a hairdresser-and by pick up, I mean kidnap. Gérard and Patrick take turns with her in bed, but since she's not as responsive as they'd like, they give up on her. They give her the ol' college try, believe me. I'm shocked this movie wasn't X-rated. At the time, it was the nastiest movie I'd ever seen, and in the past nine years since, I've only seen one film that was filthier. In the beginning, there's an extremely nasty scene that serves to separate the ladies from the girls. Gérard and Patrick are riding on a bus and fondle Brigitte Fossey, a total stranger, so explicitly, it's embarrassing to watch. When she leaves the bus and is greeted by her husband, the two hellions giggle to themselves that she'll be thinking of them later on while she's with her husband. If you can't handle that scene, you can't handle the rest of the movie. It only gets worse: more explicit, more sick, more upsetting.
After Miou-Miou, they pick up Jeanne Moreau and add her to the mix-yes, I mean that literally. Once she's out of the picture, in an extremely upsetting scene that unfortunately hasn't left my brain over the past nine years, they return to Miou-Miou. More crimes, more sex scenes, and then finally, Isabelle Huppert, an innocent teenager. Do you think they take pity on her innocence, or do you think they corrupt her? If you can't guess the answer to that, you really shouldn't be watching this movie.
As for anyone who should be watching this movie, there's really a limited ideal audience. Those who really love nasty foreign movies, and those who think any one of the leads is wildly attractive and want to watch him or her in the nastiest R-rated movie ever made. Anyone else will probably be scared for life. And feminists, don't even think about renting it. The depiction of mindless women who allow themselves to be used like sex toys without any thought to pregnancy, STDs, or self-respect will make you go crazy. Jeanne Moreau's character is the only one who seems to understand the repercussions of such despicable behavior, and the most upsetting scene comes after her realization.
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to nudity, violence, and graphic sex scenes, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.