A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up encountering various forms of feminine power.
Cinematography
Northern California wilderness shot like a fever dream of feminine mystique.
Acting
Birkin and Lafont absolutely devour the screen; Noury barely survives.
Direction
Chapier's weird fusion of French New Wave and American hippie culture.
Director
Henry Chapier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the height of the counterculture movement, this captures a specific moment when European art cinema tried to decode American hippie mysticism.
Jane Birkin was at the height of her 'It Girl' era here, between her Serge Gainsbourg collaborations and her international breakthrough.
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