In French. 118 minute running time so 18 minutes too long. The French title of this is “Les Valseuses” which is slang for “the balls.” This was a strange one, lots of vulgar sexual stuff and nudity, lots of criminality, but it’s also really hilarious and totally absurd, you could tell they had fun making it … young Gerard Depardieu strutting around in his tight pants … definitely not a Hollywood movie … Clockwork Orange must have inspired them and this movie in turn probably inspired Tarantino … I can’t recommend it like John Farr did (“a roguishly erotic, almost nihilistic buddy film”), but I’m glad I saw it and give it a solid yellow rating. I’ve got to check out more of Bertrand Blier’s work.

The back of the DVD case has a blurb from Pauline Kael: “an explosively funny erotic farce — both a celebration and a satire of men’s daydreams.”