The Girl On A Motorcycle (1968)

A recently married teenage bride (Marianne Faithfull) gets up at dawn in France leaving her sleeping schoolteacher husband (Roger Mutton) and jumps on her motorcycle and leaves for Germany to meet her lover (Alain Delon). Based on the novel LA MOTOCYCLETTE by Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues and directed by Jack Cardiff (SONS AND LOVERS). A crazy mess of a movie trapped in its own 1960s time capsule. Endless shots of Marianne Faithfull in a tight fitting leather catsuit zipping on country roads and highways, her hair blowing in the wind as Les Reed's overblown score accompanies her. I think the movie is supposed to be erotic (it got an X rating in the U.S.) but its purple prose tends toward the camp. Sample: Delon: "Your body is like a violin in a velvet case" as he unzips Faithfull's leather catsuit and she squeals, "Skin me!". The film's colorized psychedelic tonal reversal of some of the images dates the movie. At times, I felt like I was watching an American International biker exploitation movie! The cinematography is pedestrian and you'd never know Cardiff (who also photographed the film) is one of cinema's great cinematographers. With Marius Goring and Jacques Marin.