Jet/Two World. Director Barbet Schroeder; Producer Dave Lewis, Charles Lachman; Screenplay Barbet Schroeder, Paul Gegauff; Camera Nestor Almendros; Editor Denise De Casabianca; Music The Pink Floyd
Mimsy Farmer
Klaus Grunberg
Heinz Engelmann
Michel Chanderli
In his first pic director Barbet Schroeder shows an insight into [late 1960s] youths, be they American or Europeans, who have been labeled everything from beatnik to yippie. There is no attempt to go in for forced erotics, violence, nudity or titillating amoralism. He gives a feeling of how it is sans didactics or obviousness. Drug-taking is a part of it in this tale of a youth from Germany destroyed by it.
The German boy meets a pretty, independent American girl. They soon become lovers and he follows her to Ibiza, a Spanish island, where they have an idyll in a beach house.
Brilliantly shot in arresting hues, it escapes picturesqueness and delves into its characters with sympathy and ease, sans indulgence. Mimsy Farmer reveals a potent personality and gives her role of the girl a tension, inner hurt and alienation.
(Color) Extract of a review from 1969. Running time: 115 MIN.
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