Could this movie be any better? No, I don't think so, everything was absolutely as it had to be... scenery, script, actors, B&W, atmosphere, pace.
A portrait of the situation that you read about Paris, France, but even in other Countries. Young people, a bit confused who reacted to the power thinking that the solution would be the violence, destruction, drugs to feel the smell of freedom. Unfortunately, more or less they destructed only themselves and in the end many of them started to work as other people already did. Of course they changed a bit the system, but the system, the power, is much stronger than a bunch of people, because the power has that money that young people often hate, but as it's depicted in this movie one of them is rich and thanks to his money is possible to have a Jaguar, a big house to host the others, food and drugs for all of them.
You see, the revolution without money is difficult, but often the revolution is against money. A bit confusing.
Anyway, among the others, we have a painter, a sculpture who works to live, a writer who doesn't really know what to do in his life and that will be the most vulnerable person in this movie, at least in my opinion.
The portrait of that time is perfectly depicted, every shade, shadow, nuance is just perfect so the choice of shooting in B&W.
The story of a group of young people in the late sixties, men and women with their issues, the ideals, the love or something called in that way, the sadness, the anger, the dreams, the life, the "freedom", the hope and then, the very reality.
A group of people who support each other like a family until the moment in which some of them realize that it's time to move forward, the time of the revolution is gone and they can't go on like that.
Some of them find themselves abandoned and incapable to go on without the support of the others.
I was a bit younger than them in the late sixties, but I lived the revolution that happened in the middle of the seventies in Italy and it wasn't any different... violence, destruction, robberies, drugs.
Not for everybody.
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