A half-forgotten science-fiction masterpiece, one of
Time magazine's top-ten films of 1971, which fell into obscurity largely because of the X rating it received during the MPAA ratings system's early, ill-defined years. A highly original vision of mundane post-apocalyptic life, this documentary-like drama of two childlike young adults wandering and scavenging is free of leather-clad mutants and power-hungry neo-fascists — it instead examines day-to-day details, from eating to entertainment to sex as a biological impulse stripped of moral and Madison Avenue connotations. We meet Glen (Steven Curry) and waifish Randa (then-wife Shelley Plimpton) naked in a...
Released:
1971
Rated:
R
Length:
93 mins