The Hippies

1981 [FRENCH]

Comedy

5
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 742 742

commune rural setting

Plot summary

Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...

Director

François Leterrier Photo
François Leterrier

Top cast

Richard Bohringer Photo
Richard Bohringer as Paul
Christian Clavier Photo
Christian Clavier as Antoine Bonfils
André Penvern Photo
André Penvern as Jean-Michel, le mari d'Odette
Paul Préboist Photo
Paul Préboist as Monsieur Triconet
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778.55 MB
1280*770
French 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.41 GB
1794*1078
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us   cz   dk   gr   es   fi   hr   hu   it   no   nl   pt   ro   ru   sv  
24 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by eade 5 / 10

Not bad but not that good either

Les Babas Cool uses the formula seemingly made for lead actor Christian Clavier of putting his character in a deeply unfamiliar situation - hilarity should follow.In this case Clavier plays a conventional young career man who stumbles on a hippie commune on his travels and being tempted by the prospect of easy sex, decides to stay.The film features many of the familiar faces of French comedy at this time including Marie-Anne Chazal and an uncredited Thierry Lhermitte (blink and you'll miss it).It is mildly funny in places but its main interest is as a now-forgotten relic of its era. It would be billed as a sex comedy but it's not a sexy comedy - prepare to cringe and squirm.
Reviewed by dbdumonteil 3 / 10

And if the hippies cut off all their hair....

An alternate title for "Les Baba cools" is "Quand Tu Seras Débloqué ,Fais -moi Signe " (=when you get rid of your complexes ,beckon to me").Today,the movie seems obsolete ,and it already was when it was released : the "return to nature" subject had been often treated in the seventies .Leterrier 's movie is a would be satire which falls short of its goal : the screenplay is rather poor and repetitive , the hero (an executive tired of his routine life) is only in the community to get free sex -50% of the movie deals with sex,which becomes boring in the long term.Now and then, there's a good gag:the bathroom cannot be locked ,so every Tom ,Dick and Harry ,even the female ones,can enter the room ,and the hero is not used to it.Now and then, the screenwriters bring up a serious topic:organic food , at a time the term was not much used, the impossibility to relate to their peasant neighbors (their show is a fiasco) ,and mainly the fact that a hippie community does not put an end to jealousy (the final free- for- all);all those subjects are treated cowardly .The best actors (François Léotard,Richard Bohringer,Anémone) were given too short or lousy parts.The latter 's role seems out of the (sixties) ark: transcendental meditation,complete with sitar...
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