17/02/09 more ( 1969 ) dir represent barbet schroeder for a film that most viewer have agree be pretty average and i be impress by quite how many differ interpretation have be offer of it . i have only scour the web quite briefly and i have already be inform that more be represent a 19th century style romance and an allusion to the story of icarus and a plain film full of dull people and and of interest only to pink floyd completists . it fair to say and then and that critical reception be mixed . i would argue that these wildly disparate reading of barbet schroeder 1969 directorial debut be proof enough that more be anything but a pretty average film . neither be it a masterpiece and of course . i approach more a i do easy rider and antonioni blowup a a time capsule film and a snapshot of an era despite the difference in pace and style and content between these movie . they all have similar flaw either vague or downright unlikeable character and act that seem slightly adrift from reality and relaxed editing and and abrupt ending that have leave viewer indignant . these movie never try to be persuasive or meet the audience half way they be what they be and man . this in itself be not a problem as long a we be leave with a souvenir of the experience . thankfully and more offer several truly memorable image and sound and suggestion to the viewer and and this be what save it . stefan be a young man who arrive in paris fresh from his study in germany . the first part of the film follow him a he fall in with a group of french hipster and accompany them to devastatingly cool and self conscious party and bar before meet estelle . the two character become sexually and romantically involved and he promise to follow her to ibiza and against the advice of his friend charlie . this be where the icarus thing come into play she be the sun and he be pursue her . you may now be able to guess how this all end . ibiza be an idyll so far away from the bustle urgency of the over populate paris that the naive stefan know he must be on to a good thing . estelle remain elusive and erratic and and the island have a less desirable underbelly . up until now i have care little for either of these character and their unfocused pursuit of somewhere to be really free and but once the action be par down to just these two the film become poignant quite suddenly . during just one single wistful exchange of dialogue in the remote villa they inhabit and the place where their volatile love crystallises and i go from watch with a fading optimism to be utterly enrapture . i can not think of many other film that have do this . the relationship between stefan and estelle be real and human in that we can see it go from life define intimacy to disillusionment and cruel coldness . they take a lot of drug and cavort naked on the terrace and the rock and beach . their life revolve around nothing but each other and the beautiful mediterranean surroundings . for a while and their situation be the very essence of freedom and emotional openness and experience for it own sake . but stefan be not in control and and this be the downfall of more than just his future on ibiza . pink floyd score be a perfect fit for the exoticism and the intimacy and and the foreboding of more . it be one of the most memorable inclusion and along with the mosquito net around estelle bed and and their hallucinogenic exuberance around the windmill ( which appear on the soundtrack album front cover ) . a scene in which they take acid to escape from heroin withdrawal be illustrative of the fundamental flaw of the couple they can not land without a crash . maybe they have come too close to what they want . stefan never make contact with any family or friend from before his arrival in paris . we be leave to presume they have no idea where he be . while other 1960s counterculture movie dwell on debauchery and excess and the medium and voyeurism and schroeder have instead present u with a story focus upon one man and who back himself into a little corner somewhere in the world and quietly disappears .