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Rating: - Best Female Anti-Heroes on the Road to Hell
Two charismatic young women from different backgrounds meet when they hitchhike. One is a country girl who happens to be in the city. The other is a city girl student who has tired of her goals. Each was supposed to go her own way at the end of the ride. However based on a mutual dare, they decide to see how long they can get by together living on their wits. They mostly beg by day & sleep in barns at night. Then voila they stumble onto a gun & head for the point of no return (they get there). ... Read More
Rating: - Will someone please release this in the UK???
I saw this film on British TV in the very late '70s (I think it was actually released in '77, not '79 as it states here), and I've been waiting 25 years or so to see it again. That's how powerful and, to use an over-used word, haunting this film is. I can honestly say that the two hours I spent watching this back then has stayed with me ever since. A mesmerising study in alienation that evokes the psychic disintegration and ennui of Europe in the '70s. Sounds dull? It isn't. It's like nothing you'll ... Read More
Rating: - A great movie about the limits of freedom.
MESSIDOR is a superb film about the limits of freedom. It is also a road movie, though a bleak & unsettling one. Two young women meet, and without really planning it, decide to hitch-hike together. It seems almost a whim. When their money runs out, they decide to continue their impromptu journey, depending on their wits for food & shelter. One is a bored college student, the other from a rural area, and the two do not seem to have alot in common. They do not bond in the predictable ways, ... Read More
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