
Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild, highly stylized surreal farce set in and around a gaping excavation for a huge urban renewal project in 1974 Paris. The anachronistic backdrop highlights the incongruity of the broad comic characterizations of real life figures George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill.... (Full plot summary below)
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Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild, highly stylized surreal farce set in and around a gaping excavation for a huge urban renewal project in 1974 Paris. The anachronistic backdrop highlights the incongruity of the broad comic characterizations of real life figures George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill.
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| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongIt is so gloriously unconvincing, so utterly absurd, that it achieves a kind of greatness. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairA sure candidate for the worst movie ever made... |
| User ReviewAlex BAwesome, totally awesome. This could be my favorite film of all time. Watch it with La Commune, or every time after watching a John Ford western. |
| User ReviewWalter MOf all the screen versions of Custer's Cosmic Comeuppance, "Don't Touch the White Woman!" is easily the most surreal in its giddy satire of the old west transposed to the streets of modern day Paris. Marco Ferreri directs in a blithely anarchic spirit(the Indians realize their full power in collective action) but still deadly serious when it comes to the crimes of the era. The Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull(Alain Cuny) are trapped in a building site. The railroad interests conspire with Pinkerton(Paolo Villaggio), claiming to be an anthropology professor, looking on in casual modern dress.(I don't have to explain the significance of that name, do I?) They bribe General Terry(Philippe Noiret) with railroad bonds which he gives to his daughter(Daniele Dublino) as a wedding present. They want him to clear out the land so they can exploit it. He in turn employs General Custer(Marcello Mastroianni) to run field operations who is in competition with Buffalo Bill(Michel Piccoli) for top billing. The movie successfully connects these events to present day imperialism, not only in the United States but also in France. Nixon is the President and his face can be seen everywhere while Pinkerton has places to be and governments to be overthrown. |
| User ReviewDann VThis rating is for the omplete originality, audacity and craziness of this film. I picked this up on a lark while browsing my local film rental store and noticed they had just acquires a box set of the driector Marco Ferriri. I had never heard of him and the titles in the collection seemed very strange. I picked this one up because I was bored by the regular Hollywood offerings and I was at least hoping to be surprised. My wish was granted! An experimental Italian director, makes a film about American Empire, in the streets of Paris, the characters dressed in period clothing, while the background is contemporar Paris, and the extras are filled by leading actors of the time. The two leads are Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. It is a farce, it is unbelievable chaotic and at times ridiculous--but it is a wicked critique of empire then and now. Could this film be made now (think of the troubles surrounding Southland Tales)? |
| User ReviewCity Lights bTourné dans un quartier des Halles en pleine destruction pour cause d'érection d'un des temples consuméristes d'une laideur indépassée, en pleine folie bétonnière pompidolienne et épidémie de spéculation immobilière, Ferreri livre là - en liant la rage capitaliste et la furie sanguinaire des "conquérants" de l'ouest comme Buffalo Bill - une critique visionnaire qui, comme beaucoup de ce qu'il a fait, reste toujours pertinente, grossière, se fichant du bon goût et demeure subversive. |
| User ReviewNicholas AA costume western set in 70's France with Catherine Deneuve, plentifully absurd in concept and creation this strange little film turned out to be an enjoyable experience in the end |
| User ReviewJerome W[size=3]I was out of commission movie-wise for a few days because my TV set finally went out on me. It served me well for 16 years so I can't complain. I got a 15" flat screen set from Wal-Mart. It was a challenge to hook up but I finally got it done although it looks like the VCR side of the DVD player will not be working.[/size] [size=3][/size] [size=3]I've seen a plethora of movies and other stuff. I saw Val Lewton's long lost movie, "The Ghost Ship". It was more a thriller than a horror movie but it was still very good with a really creepy performance by Richard Dix as a mad sea captain. "Julie Johnson" was a nice film about a North Jersey housewife who discovers she has a great aptitude for mathematics and starts out a new life because of it, even to the point of leaving her husband and beginning an affair with her best friend. Courtney Love was the best friend and she showed she's a believable actress and hot to boot, when she can stay clean and sober.[/size] [size=3] I saw the Wallace And Gromit feature and it was just as wonderful as I thought it would be. I loved the little side jokes that only a British audience would get, like the quick appearance of the Art Garfunkel single "Bright Eyes", a big hit in England that came from the film "Watership Down".[/size] [size=3] There were two really weird films I saw. One was "Don't Touch The White Woman", a 1974 French-Italian satire that played out the short western career of George Custer up to the Little Big Horn in modern day France, with all the actors in authentic calvary gear. There were enough references to President Nixon to make it clear this was a spoof on Vietnam, but where else could you see Marcello Mastroianni playing Custer and Ugo Tonazzi playing his Indian scout?[/size] [size=3] The other bit of weirdness was "The Fat Spy", some bizarre combination of beach party movie and spy spoof that starred Jack E. Leonard, an insult comic who predated Don Rickles, in dual roles along with Phylllis Diller, Brian Donlevy and surely the only reason this movie made it to DVD, Jayne Mansfield. The movie made no bloody sense and worse, wasn't even funny.[/size] [size=3][/size] |
| User ReviewDaniel JA scathing mixed historical retelling of the American genocide and the Battle of Little Big Horn. Leave it to the French to point out that racism in America and manifest destiny all fell neatly between the lily thighs of white women - the title's admonishment is one of the supposed prime movers in Custer's Last Stand. Much like Cox's WALKER, the timeline and modern tropes (namely the magnetic eyes of President Nixon) that intrude seem to justify the community theater re-enactment and staging. The "surrealism" feels a bit forced and the movie drags on with its few points (American Imperialism is arrogant and stupid, therefore easily defeated) made over and over again before we are rewarded with some gore effects and a very dusty fight. The cast is great, if under used. This movie made Noelle so mad she had to take a bath. |