More (1969)

Nutzer-Bewertung:

6.2/10   

Regisseur:

Barbet Schroeder

Drehbuchautoren:

Eugène Archer (dialogue)
Mimsy Farmer (dialogue: collaboration on final version)

Premierendatum:

21. Oktober 1969 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romanze | Krimi

Werbezeile:

When two people love, one always loves more.

Plot:

The making of a heroin addict. Stefan, fresh from college, hitches from Germany to Paris, where he does...

Plot Keywords:

Drug Addiction | Ibiza Spain | Paris | Lesbianism | LSD

Nutzerkommentare:

A cult of love, sex and drugs

Besetzung

Mimsy Farmer	...	Estelle Miller
Klaus Grünberg	...	Stefan Brückner
Heinz Engelmann	...	Dr. Ernesto Wolf
Michel Chanderli	...	Charlie
Henry Wolf	...	Henry
Louise Wink	...	Cathy

Alternativ:

Gier nach Lust (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) (new title)
More - Mehr, immer mehr (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)

Länge:

West Germany:117 Min

Land:

Bundesrepublik Deutschland | France | Luxembourg

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Eastmancolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.66 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

UK:18 (cut) | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:18

Drehorte:

Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain

Firma:

Jet Films

Dies und das:

The soundtrack was composed by Pink Floyd. The band was given £600 and complete ownership to all of the material for their work, and some of the songs on the album were still in their live set list by 1971. The band also scored the music for another Barbet Schroeder film, Vallée, La (1972) in 1972.

Pannen:

Verschiedenes: David Gilmour's last name is misspelled "Gilmore" in the opening credits.

Querbezüge:

Bezug enthalten in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)

A cult of love, sex and drugs

"More", maybe, is mostly remembered for the excellent soundtrack composed by Pink Floyd -in 1969 they weren't superstars yet. Actually they made an album with the film music, no fan can miss it!

But this is also the first film of German-French director Barbet Schroeder: it's a cult movie. When it was released, censorship everywhere cut several scenes of sex and drugs. It is also one of the first films to treat explicitly the theme of drug slavery.

A German boy travels to Paris and meets an American girl: they fall in love. Together they search for sun and exoticism. But it's a too high price love: she initiates him into drugs.

In the Sixties anti-drug campaigns were not like today, there wasn't much information. On the contrary, in many milieus taking drugs was a sort of spiritual experience... So it's quite surprising to see a film of that period which describes a nightmarish heroin experience.

The film is simple, not vulgar at all and shot in a "cinema-verité" style. Actors Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg are very convincing. "More" is a document of the end of the Sixties -and a document of the end of the hippies illusions as well.