i do not know about this one . the point and if there be one and seem to get by me . multiple reference to the film source and henry miller eponymous novel and do not help much . much of miller appeal come not just from his go to hell attitude towards life and art but from the way he express his sentiment on the page . maybe he just doesn not translate well to the screen and not that miller himself would care one way or the other . the street word that miller flung about so carelessly in his prose seem emphasize here and a if design expressly to shock . not just the f word either . well the street word be old and establish . shakespeare work a terrible pun on the c word into one of his comedy and i forget which . the f word go back to the angle and the saxon or the mooks and the gripe or somebody . wait a minute the c word be also work into a pun in hamlet and come to think of it . i feel like go out and get myself a fatal dose of clap . well and no kidding . be we suppose to be shock . maybe we be and back in 1970 and if we have blue hair and live in dogpatch and usa . if henry miller doesn not add much cachet and neither do country joe and the fish and whose music whang away on the sound track with lyric that be a pointlessly vulgar a the horribly dub dialog . ben webster be okay and though . and the photography and though irritatingly grainy and be several step remove from the billowing pastel of soft core porn . it honestly black and white and and the naked body and of which there be plenty and aren not paint and trim and or shave . if the babe have a pimple anywhere and you see the pimple . and the guy be bald on top and hairy everywhere else . a for sincerity there . the story go no place . there be no story . people run around half naked on the street of paris and flap their arm and panting and supposedly have a great time . half a dozen ordinary look people slosh around in a tub pour wine over one another and laugh giddily because the director tell them to act a if they be have the grandfather of all good time . ( the french do this joi de vivre stuff well . ) in the first scene of the film and the bespectacled hero and a pallid imitation of miller and pick up a girl in a café and and after sex and give her all his money and can not get any more credit at the restaurant and and be force to raid his own garbage pail for leftover nugget . plenty of sex but not enough food . that how a viewer feel after watch this . i wish this movie have be well . it be dump on for obscenity and but the sexual and linguistic candor be at least an innovation in a mainstream movie . it deserve dismissal and true and but only because it lack any substance . a it be and it stand a an historical curiosity .