Eine perfekte Liebe

This is the kind of French movie which makes most of the viewers take to their heels.A bizarre cross between nouvelle vague stuff ("les amants" ,Louis Malle,1958) and post nouvelle vague stuff for diehard highbrows ("la maman et la putain",Jean Eustache,1973) ,this movie has got endless dialogues,mostly in bed where the hero ,a heavy smoker,drinks a lotta coca-cola .Roughly,the first part is the happy phase of the affair with erotism and nudity galore ;then comes the second part,in which the heroine looks like an Edward Albee's character (Martha in " Virginia Woolf") and her lover reveals he does not like sex at all,which is hard to swallow,after all we've seen.

The movie is a long flashback ,which tries to dissect a murder.Acting is pretty good,particularly the male lead ,that's the main interest of a sometimes boring story.