LA VALLEE (1972) ¢ ¢
D: Barbet Schroeder
Bulle Ogier, Michael Gothard, Jean-Pierre Kalfon,
Valérie Lagrange, Monique Giraudry, Jérôme Beauvarlet
French-speaking hippies head off into the wilds of New Guinea to look for pretty feathers. Or something. They get high and pick fruit off the trees and the blonde-haired hippie girl plays with a snake and they talk to each other a lot in French. Also, some pigs get clubbed to death and slaughtered while you watch. Then the hippies go native, and then they go out too far, 0r maybe they get to where they want to go, I couldn't tell, because I watched this without subtitles and I don't know French. A definite product of its time, good-looking but slow, part travelogue, part adventure story, part anthropological study and part "Heart of Darkness". Music by Pink Floyd.
