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Going Places is a french film of genre Drama directed by Bertrand Blier released in USA on 13 may 1974 with Gérard Depardieu

Going Places (1974)

Going Places
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Released in USA 13 may 1974
Length 1h57
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama,    Crime
Rating71% 3.5904753.5904753.5904753.5904753.590475

Going Places is a 1974 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier, starring Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere. Its original title is Les Valseuses, which translates into English as "the waltzers", a vulgar French slang term for "the testicles". The film is based on the eponymous novel by Blier.

Synopsis

Jean-Claude (25) and Pierrot (23) are young sociopathic 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 deranged 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 psychopathic 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.

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