The Pleasure Pit

The Pleasure Pit

Les chemins de Katmandou
🎞️ Movie 92 min FR
โ˜… 5.6 /10 1969

A LOVE STYLE that is HONEST and TRAGIC!

Oliver is a rebellious socially-conscious young man and activist who despises overt materialism, but dates a model. He tries to convince her to leave her materialistic and exploitative profession, but he can barely support himself, let alone her as well. That's when he decides to leave Paris where he lives with his mother to find his deadbeat dad who moved to Nepal some time ago and made good business as a professional hunter. Oliver wants to try to convince him to help him with his financial situation. Almost broke, Oliver manipulates his friend who works on a relief program in India to get the money to travel to Nepal. Once there, he's picked up by a band of hippies from Europe. One of them is Jane, a beautiful young carefree girl who practices free love. He falls for her immediately, but moves on, since he's not that anti-materialistic. When he finally finds his dad, he discovers that his father is in fact almost broke and working for a sleazy businessman who deals with stolen artifacts. Oliver is forced to steal artifacts for him as well to support himself. On one mission he meets Jane again, now a total drug addict. His new mission becomes to save her, but she doesn't want to be saved. Meanwhile, his dad is openly having an affair with the sleazy businessman's wife which complicates things even more for Oliver and everyone involved.

Cast

Pascale Audret
Pascale Audret
Yvonne
Jane Birkin
Jane Birkin
Jane
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg
Ted
Elsa Martinelli
Elsa Martinelli
Martine
๐Ÿ‘ค
David O'Brien
Jacques
Renaud Verley
Renaud Verley
Olivier
Steve Eckardt
Steve Eckardt
Gregory
Gilberte Géniat
Gilberte Géniat
La bouchère
Mike Marshall
Mike Marshall
Harold
Marc Michel
Marc Michel
Marss
Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Andréas Winding
Cinematographer