Going Places movie storyline. Jean-Claude and Pierrot are young men who travel around France, committing petty crimes and running from the law. After they get in trouble with a hairdresser in Valence for stealing his car, they grab his pistol and kidnap his assistant Marie-Ange, an apathetic girl. When they are bored with unorgasmic Marie-Ange, they decide to find a passionate woman and meet Jeanne Pirolle, a woman in her forties who is just released from prison and had spent ten years in a cell.
After a threesome, Jeanne commits suicide and the men return to Marie-Ange. They find Jeanne’s son Jacques who had been incarcerated as well. Then, the four consider founding a crime family but at their first crime, an attempted robbery, Jacques commits a revenge killing and the others flee. While on the run, they meet a family having a picnic near Col d’Izoard and the delinquent teenage daughter Jacqueline wants to join them. They take Jacqueline and on learning that she is still a virgin, they decide to deflower her. After dropping Jacqueline, the three ride away aimlessly.
Going Places is a 1974 French comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Bertrand Blier, and based on his own novel. Its original title is Les Valseuses, which translates into English as “the waltzers”, a vulgar French slang term for “the testicles”. It stars Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere.
It is widely considered one of the most controversial films in French cinema due to its vulgarity, depiction of sexual acts, nudity and moral ambiguity; however, Blier’s later acclaim for the rest of his filmography made it a cult film for modern critics. The Jesus Rolls, an English-language remake directed, written by and starring John Turturro, which also acts as a spin-off to the cult comedy film The Big Lebowski, was released in February 2020.
Going Places (1974)
Directed by: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Patrick Dewaere, Christian Alers, Brigitte Fossey, Michel Peyrelon, Gérard Boucaron, Jeanne Moreau, Eva Damien, Dominique Davray, Isabelle Huppert
Screenplay by: Bertrand Blier, Philippe Dumarçay
Production Design by: Jean-Jacques Caziot, Françoise Hardy
Cinematography by: Bruno Nuytten
Film Editing by: Kenout Peltier
Costume Design by: Michèle Cerf
Makeup Department: Simone Knapp
Music by: Stéphane Grappelli
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cinema 5 Distributing
Release Date: March 20, 1974
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