Super awkward and uncomfortable throughout except for the scene of the two magistrates leveling the same punishment for two vastly different crimes.

You gotta love Charles Bronson and who couldn't adore Susan George? This is a pretty pedestrian film but the staging is lovely and it's worth checking out just to admire Lola's wardrobe.

Want a laugh? Check out this gloriously ridiculous sex romp, which would almost be offensive if it weren't so thoroughly bizarre. Bronson is an alleged 38 year old novelist (at the time, he was actually 48 but looks 68) who inexplicably hooks up with... (read more) Want a laugh? Check out this gloriously ridiculous sex romp, which would almost be offensive if it weren't so thoroughly bizarre. Bronson is an alleged 38 year old novelist (at the time, he was actually 48 but looks 68) who inexplicably hooks up with a 16 year old English schoolgirl! (Inexplicable, as Bronson spends the entire movie doing his best impression of an Easter Island statue.) Riddled with logical errors, hilariously bad melodrama and a raft of remarkably clumsy wannabe French New Wave/Richard Lester zooms and jump cuts. Second-time feature director Donner shows no sign of the man who would eventually helm such hits as THE OMEN, SUPERMAN, and the LETHAL WEAPON series. Godawful.