Going Places
1974 · Movie · R · 117 min · ★ 6.7 · 70% critics
Two drifting petty criminals roam from town to town, stealing, provoking fights, and pushing boundaries with strangers. A disillusioned hairdresser falls in with them, turning their chaotic spree into a messy, darkly comic journey that keeps testing desire, power, and what anyone is really looking for.
Based on Going Places
Also known as Getting it up
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Details
- Original title
- Les Valseuses
- Years
- 1974
- Release date
- 1974-03-20
- Language
- French
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Critic score
- 70/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (493 votes)
About
You may like this if you can handle a provocative, anarchic French road romp with crude humor and explicit sex and violence; Not for you if you want sympathetic leads, clear morals, or gentler fare like Stolen Kisses.
Pros: anarchic dark humor; memorable performances; vivid sense of place | Cons: explicit sexual violence; misogynistic tone; thin episodic story
Themes
- release from prison
- bisexuality
- menage a trois
- hoodlum
- anarchic comedy
Cast & crew
Gérard Depardieu
as Jean-Claude
Miou-Miou
as Marie-Ange
Patrick Dewaere
as Pierrot
Jeanne Moreau
as Jeanne Pirolle
Christian Alers
as Henri, Jacqueline's father
Brigitte Fossey
as Woman on the train
Michel Peyrelon
as Bruno, surgeon
Gérard Boucaron
as Carnot, mechanic
Jacques Chailleux
as Jacques Pirolle
- ED
Eva Damien
as Bruno's wife
Directed by Bertrand Blier