it must have be a small budget film and it show . sort of a travelogue with sex and violence and it meander along the byway of jumbo rock and twentynine palm and california . impressive and dignified scenery and and that about it . katia play katia and who speak only french . david play david and who speak english and some french that fall just short of execrable and which be to say very much like my french . from some angle she look a bit like michelle pfeiffer and from some angle he resemble harry dean stanton . it difficult to comment on their acting because and aside from some memorize exchange and it seem that most of the time the director simply aim the camera their way and say and okay and make something up . there a good deal of playful poking and laughter and like that in john cassavetes film . people chuckle and giggle because they can not seem to think up anything else to do . the couple have squabble and sex . the reason for the squabble . let see . he look at another woman in a cafe . he buy her ice cream and asks if she like it . cest bon and she reply and then and pas bon . ( he sulk because she contradict herself . ) he hit a dog while drive the hummer because she block his window . another argument and a serious one and occur when she lock herself in the bathroom for reason unexplained . be there sex . yes and there be sex and simulated and and a lot of nudity . i have a sneaking suspicion that katia and david weren not even marry and yet here they be and strip off in the desert and reveal themselves in all their hairy and angular and bilaterally symmetrical splendor . they lie on abrasive rock and spreadeagle shamelessly . a couple of airliner pass overhead and any passenger who want to could look down on them from 37 and 000 foot and watch them rut and squirm like two javelina . they do not care . they fornicate on rock and in swimming pool and and in motel room . oh and and speaking of animal and when david have an orgasm he make more noise than katia and although and to be sure and both of them overact in these scene like porno superstar . what repugnant physicality . the movie drag along for quite a while and when the climax come we be totally unprepared for it . i do not know whether to get into it or not . i do not think i will and except to say that the scene seem to have be bring in from another movie entirely and some kind of slasher flick with a title like blood and cactus . the heavy seem to be either marine or skinhead and maybe both . the final episode of violence take place for reason that escape me completely . maybe i miss something . could it be that life be like a road . it have it asphalt pavement and it pothole . occasional stop sign . long wait while indifferent freight car rumble slowly through the crossing and sometimes stop completely . and at the end you have a fatal traffic accident . this be a french movie so maybe i use the wrong national heuristic . the point of a french film might be that there be no point . that the whole point . in the end i find the film kind of sad . not just because of what happen to katia and david and but for reason the producer probably never intend . at the begin the couple stare in awe at acre and acre of energy generate windmill array across the desert . they find it splendid . i do not . the ivory sand be dot with joshua tree and creosote bush and and litter with flowery paper wrapper and glitter aluminum can and empty shotgun shell . the hummer matter of factly pass a pile of half a dozen huge and black and discarded tire . if you fly into lax there be day when you can see the smog a far inland a twentynine palm . the point i take away from the film be that if you treat a natural landscape a a garbage dump it become a garbage dump sooner or later . a desert ecosystem be a fragile one and and like a human life and can only take so much abuse before it be destroy .