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Kids watching porn, kids boozing. Typical fodder for the 1970's when shock replaced story. A raft of cliches try out the multiple part parents the Archie sophisticated bunch the kid in the fedora who seems to have an unlimited wardrobe of gangster clothes. All of these desperate elements come together to produce not very much.. in these years Olivier seemed to just want to be in front of a camera. It's unclear if he was just tired or his name was just soughtTo lend credibility.

Broderick Crawford, acting himself, gets poor lines based on cliches . Explains " the booze is free iand I might get laid". How tiresome. . Is this really supposed to be the best? Could Wright?

Only positive is the scenery. Filmed on location in Europeans most photogenic cities. The first ones.

I got sucked into this by Ben Mankewitz and his guest on TCM. I should've known better because Ben believes the most productive period Hollywood was the 60s and 70s, which is everybody knows this when I produced a lot of boring snd pretentious trash. His guest was on before, last year, and recommended an awful Vietnam era movie that was bizarre incoherent confusing and pointless. However for some reason I thought tonight would be different so I started watching " the meetings of Anna" This film really reinforces a lot of clichés about the French even though thr inaction (cannot see any action) takes place in Germany. The central figure is dull and dirty in every sense of the word. Because it's a French film there's no spoiler in saying there are Filthy people with poor hygiene and no clothes on. I don't think I've ever seen a French film people with people who kept on their clothes. And at least one frumpy lady who avoids showers and seems to wear no undies. LOL But apart from that I couldn't really tell you anything about it because there's no action or story.. There's really nothing to say. The characters are given to long speeches and stories with little or no point. Coincidentally the Germans in the movie speak very good French. If you have a broken lightbulb at home you might wanna munch on it while I watch this film so at least there's something mildly interesting going on in your life.

This is a tough one because the movie is actually potentially very interesting and it could've really developed into a pretty riveting story, sometimes the film has one basic flaw that you simply cannot get away from. Sometimes it's a flawed premise like in the movie "Fat and Away" wherein the upper class Irish character has an Irish accent when in reality it was a 100% English accents LOL. In this movie one of the huge problems is the father seems genuinein his dedication to his daughter, as well depicted and moving. But this is a post apocalyptic. And it is completely absurd and inexplicable that someone who is interested in self preservation of the defense of others, would simply avoid effective weapons of any kind.. The comment to explain is that "it's dangerous to be around guns" is absurd beyond belief. I can only assume that there's some political motive here however since were talking about complete breakdown of society, The whole anti-gun stuff really doesn't make any sense and is basically ludicrous. So every time a scene where danger presents itself occurs I couldn't help wondering why are these people dedicated to saving others, but then just hoping for the best when they could morally face up to the danger?? Jumping out windows Does not seem to be much of a plan on faced with people who have weapons and are intent on Violence. The question never did get resolved so ultimately it was just a kind of annoying and frustrating story.