Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and...
Director: Ulli Lommel
Stars: Carole Bouquet, Richard Hell, Ulli Lommel.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078873/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
4 songs in the Soundtracks by RH & group, 2 classical pieces which must have been in the score. A user who wrote a positive review of this said this had an entire album of this punk band's album. 4 songs? Or perhaps there were more, but not documented on the Soundtracks page.
In a sense, this is a very successful film, because it conveys nothing to me. And wouldn't that be the point/goal of a Blank Generation?
CB is indeed beautiful. The relationship she forms with RH is volatile, almost violent; she's constantly breaking up with him. Fortunately, he leaves her at the airport when she changes her mind yet again, and decides to stay with him. I didn't pay enough attention to see if he knew she was changing her mind again. I don't think so. The movie ends with that.
RH, while going through the mill that is CB, decides he doesn't want musical success, and quits. But during a lengthy off-time from CB, goes back to music.
The Warhol appearance is also non-climactic. The German interviewer, played by the writer/director of this film, finally gets AW to come be interviewed, and then asks no question. He offers that their camera would follow AW if he moved around. Well, if that's what you want, why didn't you go into HIS environment? The French journalist CB asks AW a question when UL leaves the room. We leave shortly thereafter, while AW is photographing CB.
I don't even want to see if these people make another film. Pointlessness is its own reward.
Rated 4.9 with almost 300 IMDb votes.
unknown, dir. Lommel; 5
