Life Is Short: Loudmouth

Life Is Short is an as-needed series documenting the films we just couldn't make it through. We like to refer to these movies as "Damsels in Distress." Previous entries can be found here. 

Title: WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER
Running Time: 106 MIN
Elapsed Time at Plug Pull:  23MIN
Portion Watched: 22%
My Age at Time of Viewing: 54 YRS, 9 MOS.
Average Male American Lifespan: 76.7 YRS.
Watched/Did Instead: Watched some classic Kubrick (watch this space)
Odds of Re-viewing This Title: 100-1

The first few scenes of this 1972 French film by Maurice Pialat feature Jean (Jean Yanne) repeatedly belittling his young working-class girlfriend, Catherine (Marlene Jobert), her leaving him, but at the last minute returning to him. Jean also treats his wife, who has returned from a trip to Russia, like trash. This apparently is the entire plot of the film. Jean and Catherine are doomed. The blurb on the DVD jacket says that the film "is hard to look at but even harder to look away." (Time Out N.Y.)

Not really. It was really easy to turn off. After watching the boorish Jean go on yet another rant, making it clear to Catherine that she's a common bitch, I pulled the plug. There is little redeeming value here. Just the dregs of '70s French cinema.