I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Blistering performances.

Best film ever will give you a excellent mood. Not shocking. Not political correct. Not for USA public ( unless you have anarchic impulses ) Not for those thinking in boxes, labels, explanations and common sense. Not for the humorless. Patrick Dewaere is the best French actor and still rocks.

"Going Places" is the English title of a 1974 French film with two of the famous actors of the era, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, as freewheeling hoodlums of highly questionable morality. The episodic movie follows their adventures as they try to, among other things, live without working and give pleasure to frigid to women. The latter endeavor includes seducing a soldier's bride on a train, literally chasing a woman through the streets, picking up a woman randomly as she leaves prison, and what becomes their ultimate challenge, giving pleasure to Marie-Ange, who is all too willing to have sex but has never had an orgasm.No one would ever accuse this movie of being politically correct. It is sexist, the heroes are brutish criminals, but the point isn't really that they're doing anything noble or should be forgiven for their sins. It is more of a meditation on self destruction, although I think the fun of this movie is just the tragic black comedy of their hopeless adventures, not analyzing it for some deeper meaning.I enjoyed the soundtrack a lot, well the main theme that kept being repeated, and the credit music was a perfect coda. This is a great French film from the 70s, check it out.

It's easy to see what made Bertrand Blier's 1974 feature so controversial: his serio-comic portrait of two amoral drifters dares the viewer to laugh while they steal cars, break into houses, terrorize strangers, and share all the women they can lay their hands on. It might have been a Crosby/Hope adventure (The Road to Depravity?) with the two comedians playing a pair of grubby, sex-obsessed delinquents, but the irony of the title is obvious: these boys are going nowhere. The elliptical structure of the film is far more noteworthy than its episodic non-plot (and far less dated than the French fashion trends of the mid 1970s), but Bertrand Blier's typically aloof direction makes it difficult to become involved in the hijinks of two such unsympathetic characters. No one can fault Blier's talent for casting, however: the film made Gerard Depardieu an unlikely international sex symbol, and the obliging bedmate in one of the more disturbing scenes is veteran actress Jeanne Moreau. Elsewhere, the traveling companions also include newcomers Isabelle Huppert and Miou-Miou.

As with that film we follow the implausible if always engaging adventures of the 2 lead characters. But whilst C + J eschew sex for a girly trip back into childhood, this pair revel in their carnality even to the point of exploring homoeroticism. Most of the sex they acquire from grudging or unwilling partners and yet, despite their deeply un-PC behaviour, everyone emerges smiling. Like C + G, through it all they remain innocents at heart, rebels against the quotidien, the bourgeois, the restrictive. As someone else has commented, I wouldn't want to know these 2 and it's a minor miracle that their trip brings scenes of mostly comedy and very little tragedy (and what there is of that cannot be laid at their door) and thus for that reason, it left me beguiled but with a sweet taste in the mouth. Dare I say that only the French can get away with films like this. And that is part of their genius.