canicule leave so many question unanswered . be the relationship between lee marvin character and the retarded farm boy suppose to be touch and comical or teeth grindingly stupid . be the reason tina louise disappear entirely from the film because the editor be a drunken ham fisted film school reject . what be tina louise character even do in this film . do the director just fly around in a helicopter shout wheeeeee . the entire shoot while the rest of the crew sit around snort coke and go zut alors . zis new wave film make it be fantastique . or something . so many question . okay and long story short . lee marvin and dress a a 1930 gangster and rob an armored car and shoot a bunch of cop and a pre schooler and then lam it to the french countryside where he capture by a repulsive bunch of inbred french redneck . sound interest . it isn not . the cop overfly the farm about a ga zillion time look for lee and each shot lovingly film from another helicopter ( the one where the director be yell wheeeeee . ) ( or le wheeeeee . since he french ) but can not find him because he always in the barn set fire or strangle nymphomaniacs or whatever . but here the depressing part . ready . despite be a film build solely around the image of lee marvin stand around in a wheat field and canicule would be consider a cinematic masterpiece today if it be make by quentin tarantino and star bruce willis and angelina jolie . it want to be parody but rarely rise to the level of stick figure cartoon and in other word the perfect film for a society of porn obsess violence addict like the u . wheeeee .