It’s a little derivative of other more famous
“woman’s-disease” romances and quirky mismatched lovers movies like Harold & Maude (1971) and Pakula’s
own The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), but
nevertheless, with a little travelogue thrown in, it works well as a genuine
and humorous film about a troubled young man (Timothy Bottoms) who gets sent by
his rich rather on a biking tour of Spain to get straightened out and meets a
prim Englishwoman (Maggie Smith) a few years older than himself, strikes up an
awkward friendship with her, falls in love with her, and shares adventures with
her as they make their way across many a gorgeous Spanish landscape. I certainly prefer Pakula’s trilogy of
paranoia from this period – Klute (1971),
The Parallax View (1974) and All the President’s Men (1976), but this
movie is refreshing because of its sincerity and mixture of drama and humor.
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