Roger Vadim's ...And God Created Woman
Jean Luc Godard's Contempt
Jean Aurel's Manon 70
The bulk of Michaelangelo Antonioni's movies
Crazed Fruit (the japanese take on this)
Bertolucci's The Dreamers (well not really jet setters as such, and perhaps too lively to qualify)
Movies featuring impossibly beautiful young men and women having lots of sex and looking bored in exotic locations. A deeply 60's phenomenon I think, and as a whole I think this style of movie (of which there are TONS, especially amongst italian and french cinema, I just wrote down the ones I could think of right now) has dated pretty badly. There's a certain skepcticism towards the idea of free love and sexual liberation in many of these movies that was probably warranted at the time but now comes across as obnoxiously moralistic, or worse yet, straight-up jealous. Of course a big part of these movie's appeal at the time was in their transgressiveness, which feels rather tame now that all the taboos have been broken. That being said there were a lot of very talented filmmakers doing these kinds of movies at the time, and they're often worth it just for the cinematography alone.
A close relative of this genre-that-I-just-made-up would be the 60's Swinging London movies - stuff like Alfie, Performance, Darling. These tend to be slightly more hopeful than their european counterparts though - there's the same whingeing about the superficiality of the party lifestyle and casual sex and etc but at the same time these movies seem sort of in love with the crazyness and colourfulness of 60's London even while they're dennouncing it. Perhaps this is why I love Blow Up as well.
I think these movies are also pretty directly linkable to a certain type of soapy 70's melodrama (X, Y & Zee, with Michael Caine and Liz Taylor, could be titled Alfie: The Latter Years) and sexpolitation (though thankfully Black Emanuelle & Co never seem quite as blasé about the fucking and the plane taking as their artsy 60's counterparts did.)
So, what do you think of this genre? Favourite movies in this style? How come there aren't any american movies like these (lack of an aristocracy? a more polarized youth - you were either militant or a total square?) Or do you think that I'm just making connections where there aren't any?
Jean Luc Godard's Contempt
Jean Aurel's Manon 70
The bulk of Michaelangelo Antonioni's movies
Crazed Fruit (the japanese take on this)
Bertolucci's The Dreamers (well not really jet setters as such, and perhaps too lively to qualify)
Movies featuring impossibly beautiful young men and women having lots of sex and looking bored in exotic locations. A deeply 60's phenomenon I think, and as a whole I think this style of movie (of which there are TONS, especially amongst italian and french cinema, I just wrote down the ones I could think of right now) has dated pretty badly. There's a certain skepcticism towards the idea of free love and sexual liberation in many of these movies that was probably warranted at the time but now comes across as obnoxiously moralistic, or worse yet, straight-up jealous. Of course a big part of these movie's appeal at the time was in their transgressiveness, which feels rather tame now that all the taboos have been broken. That being said there were a lot of very talented filmmakers doing these kinds of movies at the time, and they're often worth it just for the cinematography alone.
A close relative of this genre-that-I-just-made-up would be the 60's Swinging London movies - stuff like Alfie, Performance, Darling. These tend to be slightly more hopeful than their european counterparts though - there's the same whingeing about the superficiality of the party lifestyle and casual sex and etc but at the same time these movies seem sort of in love with the crazyness and colourfulness of 60's London even while they're dennouncing it. Perhaps this is why I love Blow Up as well.
I think these movies are also pretty directly linkable to a certain type of soapy 70's melodrama (X, Y & Zee, with Michael Caine and Liz Taylor, could be titled Alfie: The Latter Years) and sexpolitation (though thankfully Black Emanuelle & Co never seem quite as blasé about the fucking and the plane taking as their artsy 60's counterparts did.)
So, what do you think of this genre? Favourite movies in this style? How come there aren't any american movies like these (lack of an aristocracy? a more polarized youth - you were either militant or a total square?) Or do you think that I'm just making connections where there aren't any?
