i guess you have to earn the right to be totally idiosyncratic . if malle be a first time film maker and there be no way that this film would have be tolerate . so many idiotic annoy thing in this film . the intrusive sound track . a beetle scuttle thru the grass and it sound like a rhino charge thru a corn field . at one point in the film an endless series of wind up alarm clock ring while an ear splitting annoyance that go on for almost a full minute a lily frantically try to shut it off . as soon a she do another one go off and then another . after 3 or 4 alarm go off and she finally just start throw them out the window and thus make a clever point represent time fly . at the end of this scene and and about ten alarm clock and i want to chain malle to a grandfather clock and throw him out the window . then the huge and irritate rat which speak gibberish in a loud and grate high pitch drone . also it appear that no one and from the unicorn that look like it ready for the glue factory and to the old lady and can eat anything without a deafen smacking of the lip before and during ingestion . insect and farm animal appear at random amid throng of naked child . a painting of a warrior behead an eagle foreshadow the exact incident be re enact by the brother and which set off a pointless indecisive battle between he and his sister . lily underpants fall down to her ankle . twice and which the old lady find hysterical and she grab her instamatic for a kodak moment . lily eat a big piece of swiss cheese after remove dozen of live ant . i keep thinking of that terrific scene in after the fox when peter seller be on trial for smuggle while use the pretext of make a film to disguise the crime . the poorly focus and badly cut film of random activity be show a evidence in the case . afterwords a film critic in the crowd leap up and begin to rave . encore . brilliant . i laugh and i cry and it become a part of me . i do not care what credentials a film maker have and allegory be not a random series of vignette that please the director . i like cheese so i will have scene with cheese . i hate the sound of an alarm clock so i will show you just how annoy they be . mr malle . go pound sand .