Going Places

1974 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 10664 10.7K

release from prison bisexuality menage a trois hoodlum anarchic comedy

Plot summary

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Director

Bertrand Blier Photo
Bertrand Blier

Top cast

Dominique Davray Photo
Dominique Davray as Ursula / Suzanne
Thierry Lhermitte Photo
Thierry Lhermitte as Warden with Jacques
Patrick Dewaere Photo
Patrick Dewaere as Pierrot
Miou-Miou Photo
Miou-Miou as Marie-Ange
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1.06 GB
1184*720
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 10
1.97 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ebsmooth 8 / 10

A Trio of drifters roam around France creating mischief

I originally saw this film years ago during Cinemax Friday after dark series(back when the cable box was built like a keyboard),and it intrigued me. Even though there is a pointless aspect to the film it is well acted.The performances of Depardieu & Dewaere are very enjoyable.They have a good chemistry together & Miou-Miou makes a pink fur look breathtaking.A movie like this probably wouldn't be made in these politically correct times(at least not in the US), since it seems to sensationalize things like violence,robbery,& casual sex. This movie proves that with a talented cast & also talented directing a good movie is a good movie no matter the subject.It saddened me to find out Patrick Dewaere committed suicide & in the near future I,ll will check him out with Depardieu & Miou-Miou in Get Out Your Hankerchief.
Reviewed by EdgarST 10 / 10

Great

Bertrand Blier's anarchic comedy is full of artistic resonance, and it sure has a special meaning to me: not only because a friend of mine made me see it to let me know what he wanted to do (oh, those labyrinthine tactics of old...!), but for it took two icons of French film heritage and put them upside down. First, that Moreau woman, of "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud", "Moderato cantabile" and "Jules & Jim" fame, makes love to the two boys before killing herself, and then la Fossey, the same actress that I had seen as a little girl in "Forbidden Games" was surprisingly playing a middle-class housewife in a bus, had her bare breasts fondled by the pair of petty thugs played by Depardieu and Dewaere. It changed my vision of French cinema, as it said bye-bye to the angst of the nihilist "nouvelle vague" and proposed anarchy as an antidote to stagnation. Of course there was also Miou-Miou, and next in line a future icon (Miss Isabelle), topped by an ironic ending for all.
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