Meant as an homage to European new-wave cinema, this film is an obvious reference to Jean Luc Goddard's A bout de souffle (Breathless) with the pacing of a Michelangelo Antonioni film. But not everything old is new again and techniques that were revolutionary in the '60s are merely curious 45 years later.
Le Besco is Lila, a bored, restless rich girl who meets and instantly falls in love with (as only teens can) the brooding Bada, who tells her he is in real estate. It turns out Bada is actually a bank robber, and before you can say "Zut alors," he, his accomplice and his girlfriend and Lila are on the run, criss-crossing Europe.
Based on the autobiography of Elisabeth Fanger, the film gets off to a quick start but soon trails off into aimless, long scenes and interminable close-ups of Le Besco, whose often blank face becomes a symbol for the movie's vacuity. When Lila winds up lost and abandoned near the end, we sympathize only because that's where we've been for the past hour.