If you're looking up this movie you're already into this type of film or are just googling what it is all about, I picked it up for a $1 at a local record shop and did not know it was a french language film, the last F. L cinema I watched was Manon Of The Spring snd the follow up to it back in the early 90s, it was what I expected and had great visuals and landscapes, it was a bit slow and tedious and nothing much really happened outside of angst and boredom and regrets, I probably would never watch it again but I'm ok spending an hour or 2 having seen this flick that I never would have seen at 21 yrs old in 1988 when it came out. Funny enough I remember getting dragged to Out of Africa back then, that was a long movie and not a guys delight either at the time but you do what you do to keep the girlfriend happy back then.