Other Titles • More • More - Mehr, immer mehr (1970)
Synopses for More (1969)
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New college graduate Stefan hitchhikes from Germany to Paris, where he finds the warm embrace of Estelle - an American expatriate and heroin addict. The two chase the sun to the island of Ibiza, where they become entangled in a sordid relationship with the island's leading drug dealer. Made in the late sixties, Barbet Schroeder's (Barfly, Reversal of Fortune) directorial debut is a treatment of pleasure, pain, and tragedy that stands apart from other counterculture films. Shot by Academy Award winning cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven), More realistically portrays the ideas and emotions that contribute to a lifestyle of destructive excess.
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Barbet Schroeder, the Oscar-nominated director of Reversal of Fortune, made his debut with this jaundiced view of the European youth drug culture. Klaus Grünberg is a naive German student who falls for blond American junkie Mimsy Farmer and discovers drugs in Paris. He follows the flighty babe to Ibiza, a sunny Mediterranean island paradise, where he falls into the world of former Nazi-turned-heroin-pusher Heinz Engelmann and succumbs to addiction. Part counterculture portrait, part antidrug drama, it's a shaggy little film that suggests the New Wave influence in a rambling pace, gorgeous asides of fun in the sun (our heroes get high and tilt at windmills--literally--in one free and easy moment), and deadpan bursts of intermittent narration. But Schroeder has little affinity with youth culture, and the film more often fits the conservative tenor of American cautionary drug dramas of the 1960s and '70s. To the film's credit, it never succumbs to the druggie clichés of the time. You'll find none of the kaleidoscope lenses, whip pans, sunlight reflections searing the image, or choppy montages to rock & roll hits that fill the drug-culture classics, just the handsome, earthy, intimate photography of Néstor Almendros. Today, More remains most famous for its subdued, moody Pink Floyd score. --Sean Axmaker
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Their open lifestyle leads free-spirited young lovers down a tragic path. Soundtrack by Pink Floyd.
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