maurinquina
Hello everyone, I know from searching the internet high and low both in the US and Europe that this film is very hard to find . Recently I was able to watch it in great quality with good sound from NetFlix . It's available at NetFlix as instant watching . No idea how they were able to source out a decent copy but they did . The film itself is a great reminder of times past especially if your in your 40's and you all know who you are :) The fashion, cars and constant cigarette smoking takes you all back . Btw I had to give it a 10 because I grew up in Austria . Hello everyone, I know from searching the internet high and low both in the US and Europe that this film is very hard to find . Recently I was able to watch it in great quality with good sound from NetFlix . It's available at NetFlix as instant watching . No idea how they were able to source out a decent copy but they did . The film itself is a great reminder of times past especially if your in your 40's and you all know who you are :) The fashion, cars and constant cigarette smoking takes you all back . Btw I had to give it a 10 because I grew up in Austria . Cheers !
John Seal
At first, this completely bizarre Ivan Passer film seems like it's going to be an intriguing if fairly routine drama about insider trading. Omar Sharif plays Andre Ferren, a completely corrupt European businessman who's been cooking the books and gets caught out by an auditor. He's enamored of co-worker Susan Winters (Karen Black, quite charming even when decked out in '70s era non-finery), and convinces her to help him out by wedding a wealthy industrialist (Bernhard Wicki) for his money. Things get progressively stranger as Susan hooks up with an American cowboy (the hopelessly boring Joseph Bottoms) and drags him off to a hillside castle, whilst the eternally priapic Andre has an unfortunate encounter with a masseuse (Elma Karlowa from Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul). This is not a particularly good film, but it isn't boring and it certainly defies expectations.
Zmajina
Although the film has many weak moments and the Bottoms character is obviously there only to fill some time (the dreadfully long driving and bedroom sequences), it has many curious elements. The first part, right until Bottoms appears, is fast-paced and intriguing, with immoral and unpredictable characters that one can't help but be interested in. The second part, although slacking the pace, turns into a surreal baroque fairytale with dark barons, killing masseuses, knights in armor and people being shot from cannons. The entire film is bathing in happy-go-lucky immorality that feels refreshing most of the time. Not the worst way to spend an evening.
Brian Ellis
Pretty awful. This film contains the trinity of bad movies - bad story, bad acting and bad camerawork. After 10 minutes I was ready for the film to end. Joe Bottoms' brothers can act but in this film it is apparent that Joe can only ski well. Vangelis' score was good but it seemed like it belonged in another film and not this one. As for the ending - who knows? The only good thing about this movie was the cannon sequence but even that brings up a lot of questions, the main one being - are cannons in old castles usually left loaded? Just one problem out of many.
AD
