Der Albatros

Pure Jean Pierre Mocky's style, especially for the seventies period, era of revolt, reject of nearly everything, against governments, laws, police, institutions of all kinds; the perfect topic for someone as Jean Pierre Mocky, the sweet anarchist of the French film industry. This movie is the best example of the anti hero, who fights for some cause already lost in advance, with a predictable ending, as it was for Jean Pierre Mocky's UN LINCEUL N'A PAS DE POCHES, made several years later and more or less on the same line, also speaking of revolt, fight against the state power. Here you have nihilism and poetry too, providing moving situations. Very dark and gloomy, as you have already guessed.

That's what Beaudelaire wrote in his eponymous poem.This is probably Jean-Pierre Mocky's best film .It's pleasant to review a good movie of a director who squandered his skills in lots and lots of unworthy films.

A man (played by Mocky himself) escapes from jail and takes a woman hostage .She is none other than the daughter of a corrupted politician .She falls in love with the fugitive and like him,she rebels against a society whose only value is dough.

The last scenes are among the French seventies' best depicting the folie à deux ,l'Amour Fou.Recommended