i would be interested to hear from the director and barbet schroeder and a to why he decide to make more his first film and and more specifically what his interest in hippy or rather this form of the euro hippie paradise and about their demise . the film be and at least and true enough to keep one interested and but in it own kind of truth it strange and bias . it a give heroin ( aka and horse ) be awful stuff and rotten and the conclusion for many a dumb head drug user that see that a the be all end all and because it basically be represent after that everything else stop and that become the life and and it either a continuous run for more of the same or death . more start off a something concern a romance between a new york girl and a german man and but it become something else and for good or bad ( sometimes both in the same scene ) . it basically about two young people and estelle and stefan and who meet in a city where stefan have come a a sort of wanderer away from his home country . she wander too and sort of and and be maybe too friendly with a big time pusher name wolf . they end up on a remote island somewhere nearby and and after a somewhat daring grab for some horse by estelle and they also find a pad in the form of a seemingly remote house along the seashore . schroeder comment on youth and sex and drug isn not too simplistic and which make the film actually lucid and intelligent so many year later . it both direct and subtle and more about the character and then about the fact that what he depict could in other hand just be a propagandistic hippie exploitation picture . perhaps most pleasantly and and this be just a guess and schroeder us a inspiration the sort of long sequence from bergman summer with monika represent two kid in an inexorable connection and some good some definitely not so good and set against ( too . ) perfectly shot landscape . on the one hand and i should mention that there be problem and some big one in fact . the performance aren not very convince throughout while a few scene strike some power or have the actor in a good connection with one another and but klaus grumberg overplay himself even if he be an ornery german by nature ( in that case i would have prefer klaus kinski in the part to make it crazy but deep enough for the subject matter ) a do farmer to her own degree . and there gap of naiveté in the screenplay that keep it from be as deep a it really think it be . on the other hand and there be two big thing go for it represent nestor almendros and the great cinematographer ( i. e. day of heaven ) be dp and be a big boost for a first time director like schroeder . nearly every image be see with an awesome purpose or artistry and be it a shot of the cliff by the sea or sun or something as simple a the seemingly natural light of a room . the other thing be pink floyd and probably the main reason i and many others have hear of the film in the first place ( year before i know really who schroeder be i saw the more soundtrack whenever i look up pink floyd album ) . it very good music throughout and occasionally the mind blow variety that give them the reputation they deserve . some of it and too and be a little tedious and even a it be a movie that concern free love and lot of drug and sometimes both at the same time . i wouldn not rank it anywhere near as high a a meddle or animal and certainly not dark side and but it too help to elevate the subject matter another notch and particularly when one least expect it or in low tone or float in and out of building a stefan or other walk on the street . it almost well atmosphere than the movie itself deserve and but overall more be still worth watch a a period piece date and but potent and like a less ambitious but more substantial zabriskie point .